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Granted, even most OCD sufferers do not have Monk's over-the-top problems. "We're taking dramatic license," says Shalhoub, who met several times with a psychologist while researching his part. "We're loading this character with just about everything a person like him can have." In a strange way, Monk's exaggerated condition makes his crime-solving genius more plausible. (More so than Monk's secondary characters, who too often have a cardboard, murder-mystery-dinner-theater feel.) It makes us see that Adrian Monk's talent--and that of the many fictional sleuths who preceded...
...million working women earning more than their husbands in 1999, there's sheer practicality in choosing the partner who makes more money to be the breadwinner. But in many cases, couples choose this role reversal because Dad is better suited for the full-time parenting job. For Illinois psychologist Robert Frank, who has studied stay-at-home-dad households and runs the annual convention, part of the decision to have children--he and his wife have two, Kevin, 14, and A.J., 13--was predicated on his willingness to stay home. His wife Linda, a COO at a computer company, concedes...
...BEHAVIOR Spanking may be an effective way to get a child to behave right away, but research from the National Center for Children in Poverty warns that it could lead to even more severe behavioral problems in the future. Psychologist Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff analyzed 88 different studies on corporal punishment and found that the more often or harshly a child was hit, the more likely the youngster was to grow up to be aggressive, antisocial or abusive toward his or her own kids...
...Dating as you get older is both easier and harder these days," says noted psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, author of the 1990 book Widowed: How to Cope with Loss. "It's more acceptable to date at this stage in life, but you may find fewer people that you really like in your age group...
...predetermined to get early-onset Alzheimer's. Molinuevo, a soft-spoken neurologist who looks younger than his 32 years, runs an Alzheimer's diagnosis and counseling program at Clinic de Barcelona, one of the country's leading research hospitals. The other members of the team include a geneticist, a psychologist and a psychiatrist. There are about 400,000 Alzheimer's sufferers in Spain, the same proportion as in the rest of the world: roughly 1% of the general population. Those who can now be told that they will contract the disease relatively early in their lives belong to a small...