Child in Mind

Just like the digital codes of replicating life held within DNA, the brain's fundamental secret will be laid open one day. But even whe...

Fascinating research at the Yale School of Medicine  shows that in poor families who are under-resourced and overburdened (a more meaningful...

Children who grow up in poverty are at risk for problems of emotional, behavioral and attentional regulation. Today's Globe reports   th...

Dancing Lessons ,  a  new play  recently premiered at Barrington Stage Company , is ostensibly about an actual dancing lesson. An injured d...

When I hear debate over the association between SSRI’s (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, a class of antidepressant medication) ...

Psychoanalysts for over a hundred of years have recognized the significance of early relationships in health and development. Now the explo...

In the course of working on my new book about listening to parents and children, I have had the pleasure of immersing  myself in the writin...