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Madness on the Couch plumbs how psychotherapy in the 1960s evolved into "an orgy of parent-bashing." Although psychoanalysts changed what parental behaviors were "psychotic-inducing" with the capriciousness that designers of their same era changed hemlines, their theories always retained one constant: the mother was at fault each time. Mainstream thinking dictated that "mechanized and maladroit" (so called "refridgerator" mothers) produced autistic and schizophrenic children. Other Rosen-type psychoanalysts would also blame the victims and their weakness to fend madness off. But there were no statistics, let alone control groups to back such theories. Often, all these psychotherapists relied...
...This policy is going to make a kid on track to go to Princeton sit up and take notice, but what about the kids who are already struggling to stay in school? This policy will just drive those kids out," said CRLS parent Pat Jakowski...
...Parents and students also suggested that the proposed "Attendance Review Committee" would place undue hardship on students for whom English is a second language. The proposed committee would adjudicate the denial of credit to students whose parent-excused absences were not on the approved list...
...software, now has 373 titles, ranging from Buying a Car for Dummies to Sex for Dummies (by Dr. Ruth Westheimer). With 50 million copies in print in 38 languages, sales reached $120 million in 1997, up 23% from the year before--a robust enough growth curve to allow parent company IDG to complete a public stock offering this summer...
According to the web site for Crimson Solutions (http://www.crimson-solutions.com/crimson_solutions/), the parent company of eRecruiting.com, the office of career services at the subscribing school then has the ability to reproduce student resumes and to release their names and addresses to prospective employers...