Word: psychologist
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...children have been part of a broken family. Books like Anthony E. Wolf's Why Did You Have to Get a Divorce? And When Can I Get a Hamster?: A Guide to Parenting through Divorce (Noonday) aim to help parents help their children through the ordeal. Wolf, a clinical psychologist who has worked with kids for almost 30 years, gives practical guidance for talking to children about tough issues. When, for example, is the right time to tell your son or daughter that you're getting a divorce? "Although there is never a good time," writes Wolf, "you will need...
...couple of years ago, everything was girls, girls, girls," says Times Books editor Rapoport. She is referring, of course, to the phenomenal success of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine) by Mary Pipher and the many copycat books that followed. Pipher, a clinical psychologist in Lincoln, Neb., argues that many girls lose themselves in adolescence, just as Ophelia, the tragic figure in Shakespeare's Hamlet, did. Popularizing the work of Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan, Pipher urges the parents of adolescent girls to help their daughters avoid emotional traps like depression, eating disorders and suicide attempts. The book...
Books for gays who decide to become parents are still not an everyday publishing event. The most popular guidebook, The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families (HarperPerennial), was published in 1993. The author, April Martin, is a psychologist in New York City and a lesbian mother. She walks parents through the intricacies of homosexual parenthood. "The children of lesbians and gay men are the most considered and planned-for children on earth," she writes. "There is virtually no such thing as an unwanted child among...
That hasn't stopped thousands of winter depressives from trying to heal themselves. Light boxes for that purpose are available for $300 to $600 without a doctor's prescription. That bothers Michael Terman, a research psychologist at Columbia University. He is worried that the boxes may be tried by patients who are suicidal or suffer from mental illness that can't be treated with light. Terman has developed a questionnaire, available at www.cet.org/cet2000 to help determine whether you should seek expert care...
...subordinate cognitive abilities). Reviewers praised Frames of Mind for eloquently making new arguments on behalf of the multifaceted position, but they complained that Gardner's theory is too speculative. "The discussion is all hunch and opinion," wrote George Miller, one of the founders of cognitive psychology. The eminent developmental psychologist Jerome Bruner, a onetime colleague of Gardner's, said the book was "in many ways brilliant" but that Gardner succeeded "only moderately well" in proving the existence and independence of the seven intelligences. In particular, Bruner said, the arguments for the kinesthetic and personal intelligences "stumble badly...