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...York Times drama critic Walter Kerr, with whom she wrote several plays, Kerr had her greatest solo hit with Please Don't Eat the Daisies, a best-selling collection of vignettes about domestic life that became a movie starring Doris Day. Kerr said she did most of her writing while waiting in the car for her six children. "There is nothing to do but write after I get the glove compartment tidied up," she said...
...with your daily activities, it is time to initiate contact, says Naomi Drew, an author of four books on conflict resolution who is based in Lawrenceville, N.J. "Start the process of reaching out by venting all of your anger about this person in a letter to yourself," Drew says. "Write down all the nasty, disgusting stuff and tear the letter into a million pieces or burn...
...while researchers hold conferences, do studies and write scholarly papers, Lewis has some more immediate advice for patients. "We need to get people to go in and ask these questions of their physicians. Bill Valvo could not agree more. "I think people are totally unaware of what's going on," he says, "and I'm convinced that education is a key part of what we need to be doing." The essence of that education: cure the mind, and you might just help save the body...
...1920s, psychoanalysis had become wildly popular in America (a country Freud visited only once and hated). Jazz age sophisticates held "Freuding" parties at which they told one another their dreams. Samuel Goldwyn, the movie-studio magnate, offered Freud $100,000 to write a love story that Goldwyn could turn into a motion picture. (He was rebuffed.) But Freud died in 1939, and the golden age of psychoanalysis lasted only until the 1950s. By then competing psychotherapeutic theories and approaches had begun to spring up, among them ego psychology, self-psychology, the object-relations school, interpersonal therapy and existential therapy...
...Chinese emigre authors who received advanced education in the West are more likely to write in English. Both Ha Jin and Jung Chang hold doctorates from Western universities, and Da Chen, author of Colors of the Mountain, received a law degree from Columbia University. Anchee Min completed a master's in fine arts at the Art Institute of Chicago...