Archive for July, 2007


The Boston Globe: Do Your Kids a Favor and Don’t Play with Them

HEADLINE: Leave those kids alone - The idea that adults should be playing with their kids is a modern invention — and not necessarily a good one
BYLINE: By Christopher Shea
CRITICAL FACULTIES
WHAT COULD BE more natural than a mother down on the rec-room floor, playing with her 3-year-old amid puzzles, finger-puppets, and Thomas the Tank Engine [...]


My Op-ed: Tony Soprano’s Lesson to All of Us

Reprinted from the Centre Daily Times of State College, PA, online at CentreDaily.com; Posted on Sun, Jun. 24, 2007
On June 9, a panel of psychoanalysts from Slate Magazine gave their final evaluation of Tony’s therapy on the popular HBO series. What they didn’t realize was that they also wrote the obituary for their own profession [...]