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Fortunately for the future of the republic, the alleged psyche-scarring effects of divorce have been grossly exaggerated. The most frequently cited study, by California therapist Judith Wallerstein, found that 41% of the children of divorced couples are "doing poorly, worried, underachieving, deprecating and often angry" years after their parents' divorce. But this study has been faulted for including only 60 couples, two-thirds of whom were deemed to lack "adequate psychological functioning" even before they split, and all of whom were self-selected seekers of family therapy. Furthermore, there was no control group of, say, miserable couples who stayed...
...from condemning any sort of behavior, Prift says he has even served as a sort of impromptu therapist, as passengers wax eloquently upon their problems in the 15- to 20-minute span of a typical cab ride...
What irks the likes of Soames and other vocal members of Charles' camp is that Diana's popularity is so far invulnerable. Media carping about her beauty and fitness regimens, her therapist Susie Orbach, her want of formal education, her abbreviated evening frocks, don't seem to have much impact. Nor does it seem to matter when critics fume that the Princess is expert in using the press and television to her own ends (as if Charles' staff and the Buck House operatives weren't trying hard for similar results). The immediate announcement of Charles' promises and the Panorama interview...
...Monday lecture, Fisher showed the slight difference in the words "the rapist" and "therapist" in reference to a novel he was discussing...
SUSIE ORBACH Di's highly public psychodrama means fresh fame for her therapist-in-waiting...