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...professionals and even the mothers of grown children stop and reconsider. Says Pulitzer-prizewinning Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman: "You find women who have believed work is the end-all and beall. But after eight years, they say, just like the housewives, 'Is this all there is?' " Washington Child Psychologist Carlotta Miles sees the shift toward mature motherhood as a very positive step. Says she: "Women no longer think that in order to be equal they have to take something fundamental away from themselves. The something turned out to be having a family...
...Horner to join the executives on the two week "fact-finding" trip solely because of her Radcliffe post. A member of Time's board like other signers. Horner first became affiliated with the publication years earlier. When it used to talk to her about her academic work as a psychologist...
...more appropriate title for the book might be Marriage II. "Divorces are made in heaven," quipped Oscar Wilde, and Alvarez agrees. His own divorce was a pre-emptive strike against despair. It enabled him, in time, to marry a Canadian psychologist, and live happily ever after. Alvarez concludes that marriage is really the platonic desire for the pursuit of the whole-minus, of course, the crusts...
...worst jolt of joblessness may be that first notice of it-the firing, the layoff, the company closure. That event, whatever its form, typically arouses feelings like grief, as though a loved one had died, according to experts like Industrial Psychologist Joseph Fabricatore of Los Angeles. The victim, says Fabricator, passes through stages of disbelief ("This can't be happening"), shock numbness, rage. The elemental severity of such a reaction tells a great deal about the invisible desolation that is possible-and commonplace-in the world of the jobless. The bruising can show up in feelings of worthlessness. Rage...
What you have to realize, says Pierce Gerety, the director of the International Rescue Committee in Thailand, is that "their whole country has been burned over." Gerety, his wife Marie, and Neil Boothby, a child psychologist, all of whom work steadily with these children, need continually to remind themselves that the small serious eyes that look up to them have taken in sights that should exist only in hell. A common story the children tell is of seeing pregnant women tied to trees, their stomachs then slit open by bayonets. More common still is the liver torture-the children draw...