Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Adoptive Nursing, Part 2: The Dependency Question

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Yesterday I discussed some issues about adoptive nursing--  breastfeeding a child who is in one’s care but who was born to a different moth...

Adoptive Nursing: What Are the Reasons?

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At the end of the war in Vietnam, there was some publicity about the fact that staff caring for babies who were to be airlifted to the U.S....
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

What Was the Rationale For Water Births? Or, Pseudoscience Aplenty

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A reader commented the other day that water births were sometimes said to be less painful for the mother than ordinary births. If there wer...
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Monday, December 16, 2013

"Victorious Occultism": Unconscionable Treatment of Infants in Russia, and Matching Attitudes in the U.S.

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Over the last few weeks I have been sent a lot of news by Yulia Massino and Nina Sokolova, two Russian women who are very concerned about...
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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Should Therapy Hurt?

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Everybody knows that medical and surgical treatments can be frightening, humiliating, and painful to undergo. When there’s evidence that th...
Monday, December 9, 2013

The "Primal Wound" versus "The Wound": Same Basic Idea?

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I happened to be reading The great derangement by Matt Taibbi, the Rolling Stone contributing editor, with an eye to seeing his comments ...

Further "Festhaltetherapien": A Therapy Weekend

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I’ve been reading further in Ute Benz’s edited book Festhaltetherapien , which examines various aspects of holding therapy as promulgated b...
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy, and Beat Him When He Sneezes: More on "Festhaltetherapien", Edited by Ute Benz

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A couple of weeks ago, I commented on an on-line sample from a new German book, Festhaltetherapien:Ein Plaedoyer gegen umstrittene Therap...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Child Custody: Admit Your Wrong-doing, and/or Don't See Your Kids

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I hate the term Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). Of course a parent can do and say things that encourage children to feel alienated fr...

Attachment Disorder-- or Life Context?

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Last weekend, my husband and I visited friends in another state, a family that has one 9-year-old child, a boy adopted from Latin America w...
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