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...easy to tell yourself that your child is going through a chubby phase. But your pediatrician's growth and body mass index charts don't lie. "You should begin to be concerned if you see rapid, abnormal upward weight divergence," says psychotherapist Ellyn Satter, author of Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family. If, over two years, you see a child's weight jump, say, from the 25th to the 75th percentile of the average weight for his age while his height stays at the 50th percentile, then there's cause for concern...
Dominique Adamski and Francis Dekens have been dreaming of a June wedding for a long, long time. Adamski, 50, a psychotherapist, and Dekens, 58, a retired bank employee, have been together for 25 years. They were the first gay couple in France to officially register their partnership, in 1999, under the then controversial law setting up "civil solidarity pacts" (PaCS). Pushed through against strong conservative opposition by France's Socialist-led government, the PaCS law gave the couple some legal recognition, but not exactly the same rules on taxation and pensions that apply to married couples in France. Now they...
...other, knowing where and how to arouse. Some sex counselors report that they see quite a bit of what anthropologist Margaret Mead called PMZ (post-menopausal zest). "Indeed, some women begin to have orgasms for the first time as they grow older," write Dr. Robert Butler and his wife, psychotherapist Myrna Lewis, in The New Love and Sex After 60 (Ballantine Books; 400 pages), the latest edition of their classic advice book...
Sylvia Martinez has owned and operated the Treasure Chest for ten years. A former psychotherapist, she now does psychic readings in the back of the store. She welcomes me into an extremely pink room, decorated with crystals and chimes. When I point out the cat curled up on the sofa behind her, she gestures dismissively, saying, “It’s a fake cat.” In other words, alive—just not anymore...
...Psychotherapist Kathleen Brehony is not the sort of touchy-feely, self-help author who will teach you how to become your own best friend. But if you can use more companionship in your life, Brehony is a master. Her wise new book, Living a Connected Life, offers helpful tips for people in a society in which sending an e-mail to someone down the hall is the norm. Too busy for relationships? Nonsense, says Brehony. You have as many hours in a day as everyone else. Perfect your small-talk skills, she advises. "It is the conduit through which strangers...