Planned Obsolescence

A billionyears ago (actually 24) I worked as aghost-writerfor a psychiatrist whose specialties were 1) working with women with serious psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, bipolar depression, etc.) who were the mothers of infants, and 2) infant depression (you will be unsurprised to know that they are frequently linked).About the time my older daughter was six months old, I quit–having my nose that deepinto psychiatric dysfunction in infancy meant that every time my daughter hiccuped I was a...