Word: father
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...requirement to "look inward." If it, and her almost single-minded devotion to work, can be traced to anything, it is to the close- knit, ascetic world of her family. Her parents fled China just before the Communist takeover in 1949 and eventually settled in Athens, Ohio, where her father, a ceramicist, taught for many years at Ohio University, and where her mother, a poet, still does. Her older brother, Tan, is also a poet. Lin's family in China, which included an architect and a famous lawyer who worked for progressive causes, has been described in Jonathan Spence...
When I read this, I recalled the Christmas party my father hosted last month for the 50 psychiatrists who work at his hospital. Over a period of about three hours, the most exciting moment must have been when we ran out of ice for cocktails and I had to go to the freezer to get more. At one point, one of the psychiatrists sneezed without excusing himself...
FINALLY, there are those who suggest psychiatrists raise their children funny. I, my brother Freud and sister Jung truly resent this implication. While we may be more able to recognize a blatant case of penis envy faster than the next guy, I don't believe having a psychiatrist father has significantly altered our so-very-important childhoods...
Still, people always ask me, "Doesn't your father analyze your every move? Doesn't he have an interpretation for everything? Isn't he always using mental tricks to get you to do stuff...
...take these questions seriously. No matter how much psychiatric training my father may have, no matter how many times he rereads Freud, he will never learn to instill me with guilt like my mother can. Some things are beyond the realm of science...