The Birds and the Bees for Kids on the Spectrum
Recently, a 13-year old patient of mine did not understand why her mother would not give her nail clippers in the middle of a church mass. Her mother looked at…
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The Good Enough Parent
When I first read Donald Winnicott’s phrase ” the good enough mother” years ago, my first reaction was, “I don’t want to be just good enough! I want to be…
The Stigma That Needs to Go
One in four Americans have a psychiatric diagnosis, most often an anxiety disorder. In most cases their symptoms started in childhood or adolescence. Yet psychiatric illnesses continue to be a…
