Therapist Love Reaches Beyond Sessions
A letter reveals a patient who loved her former therapist with transference and ongoing distress after therapy ends. Dr Albert Stankard notes love can surface in analysis as motivation or a way to work through issues, but persistent attachments should fade as treatment concludes.
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Albert Stankard
University of Pennsylvania
Stankard
Autistic love in therapy raises risk of boundry violations
Psychiatrists may face passive patient dynamics that foster attachment and misperception. An expert suggests a second therapist consult to assess past patterns, father relationships, and possible adolescent crushes, guiding whether to end treatment or seek a woman therapist for safer, boundary‑aware care.
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John Hinckley
Jodie Foster
Spoiled children social dilemma in China policy
The one child policy has raised concerns over spoiled only children known as little emperors and the pressures on families. Experts say rural areas differ, with fertility still above replacement and reforms aimed at easing the policy in 10 to 15 years as modernization may shift norms.
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China
China Youth News
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Wu Cangping
Milkman Goes Extra Miles for Elderly Customers
Mason, a devoted milkman, checks on elderly customers and tends pets, reads a blind customer's meter, and sits with the sick. He plans to retire in two years, supported by his wife Lois and their five children and two grandchildren.
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Mason
Lois
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