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Elsewhere in America, a family therapist, a pastor or a wise grandparent might perform Karen Faverey's job. But in Delaware Terrace, a rambling brick housing project in the Rust Belt town of Easton, Pa., Faverey, a serene mother of six, is paid by the Federal Government to enter the living rooms of unwed, low-income couples and ask a loaded question. "You know which question I'm talking about," Faverey says to Lamont Sims and Stephanie Bryant, who live and work in Delaware Terrace, he in the maintenance department, she as a receptionist. They have dated...
...found nothing spectacular or terrifying in it, only government agents scrambling to hide a conspiracy and scrambled plot lines trying to hide a lack of creativity, despite the guarantee a seemingly competent cast should offer. Julianne Moore’s Telly Paretta is a likeable everywoman. Her therapist (Gary Sinise), is appropriately authoritarian, while her husband (ER’s Anthony Edwards) appears to be phoning in his support from another planet. They are too hampered by the product they’ve been asked to deliver to hope to redeem...
...found nothing spectacular or terrifying in it, only government agents scrambling to hide a conspiracy and scrambled plot lines trying to hide a lack of creativity, despite the guarantee a seemingly competent cast should offer. Julianne Moore’s Telly Paretta is a likeable everywoman. Her therapist (Gary Sinise), is appropriately authoritarian, while her husband (ER’s Anthony Edwards) appears to be phoning in his support from another planet. They are too hampered by the product they’ve been asked to deliver to hope to redeem...
...rest received relaxation therapy. While the results are not yet ready for release, they "indicate there are some significant benefits from SEGT," says project coordinator Brenda Grabsch. The women learned to mourn their fate, then "rise above these feelings to discover humor and creativity," says former Thursday Girls therapist David Kissane, now chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. By showing the women how to approach dying with courage and how "to say goodbye in poignant, meaningful ways while living to the end," Kissane adds, SEGT is worthwhile even...
...fellow group member, or because they've heard first-hand that a certain drug or alternative therapy is worth a try. That the effect of this might be to give some women an extra year or more of life appears to be a "valid hypothesis," says New York therapist Kissane, but even when the results of his trial are known, "the debate is probably going to go on." Whether the Thursday Girls continue is less certain. Funding from Melbourne University's School of Social Work - which pays the therapists' wages - will cut out at year's end, and the women...