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...Robert R. Read, a staff psychologist at the Bureau of Study Counsel, passed away of a heart attack on Sept...
Read first became associated with the Bureau as a graduate student in 1984. As a staff psychologist, he discussed a variety of issues with students...
Calamities may reinforce reflexes more than they work miracles. This crisis, says clinical psychologist Jeffrey Slutsky, "can serve as a catalyst for reconciliation if the people involved were already primed for it. But it takes more than even these traumatic events to change people's character." In fact, crisis may serve mainly to reveal character, for better or worse. Jeanne, an art director for a magazine in Northern California, was planning her March wedding in New Orleans; her fiance was a New York City stockbroker working one block from the Twin Towers. After the attacks, she expected...
Compounding such strains are pressures that discourage couples from expressing how they feel. "They're afraid to say the parent is the source of stress in a marriage," says Pauline Boss, a family psychologist at the University of Minnesota, "because their culture has taught them it's their duty to take care of family." Doris Roberts agrees: "You feel selfish saying 'I'd like to be out playing golf today.' You think, Good children do this...
...emotional cost also will be hard to measure as the years unfold. "I'm suspecting that we'll see signs of trauma--anxiety and depression--in kids who went into this with vulnerabilities, who have suffered previous traumas and losses," says Bruce Arnold, a child psychologist who consults at P.S. 234. He says kids who have adequate home and school support, however, will have a good chance of recovering. "They should be given the space to forget about it, have fun and do some familiar things," says Arnold. He discourages parents from sharing too many details of the tragedy because...