Sublime

to thrive” for children separated from their parents and caught in debilitating grief.

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

At last, the psychologist turned to Gillian’s mother and said, “You know, Mrs. Lynne, Gillian isn’t sick. She’s a dancer. Take her to a dance school.”

EMDR, dialectical behavior therapy, and internal family systems therapy, go on to change the way therapy is practiced.

William found it hard to picture his parents’ faces. He saw them at the train station, waving, but their forms were blurry. The idea of his father being depressed had no traction in William’s mind; it just slipped away. These sessions with this doctor, who paid attention to him—sank her eyes into him like fishhooks—were exhausting.

In 1995, relatively free from the shackles of the computer screen that now demands so much of doctors’ attention, the main obstacle Weinberg faces in engaging the troubled young woman is his own willingness to do so. His leisurely conversations with her seem as quaint to us now as black bags and glass hypodermics.

Most of these studies, in both the United Kingdom and the United States, have shown that FBT can be very effective for adolescents with anorexia, especially for those who have been ill for less than 2 years.

In real life it is impossible to tell whether people’s aggressive or uptight behavior is the result of parents’ genes or of having been raised by an abusive mother—or both.

Dad deprivation is the main hole in the heart common to boys vulnerable to gangs12 and to boys targeted by sexual predators.