InSiblings: Sex and Violence, the psychoanalyst Juliet Mitchell writes that ‘we all have or expect to have a sister or brother and this is psychically and socially crucial’. It was this expectation that hovered over my early childhood, when my parents considered having another child. The de...
'He also said he could feel her energy all around me and that I'd lost her a long time ago. He seemed quite emotional.' She was impressed, and not just with his spiritual powers. Within months, Kerry, a teaching assistant, was dating the charismatic psychic healer, to whom she felt...
I expended so much psychic energy trying not to get swallowed up or lost in the sea of other black-haired people. I didn’t even realize how much of a burden that was on me until I didn’t have to deal with it anymore. Many of my ABC friends have also since returned to the State...
believe me, I had reason to worry. My previous relationship with a Chinese guy ended in an ugly breakup simply because he could never take me home to meet the parents. He said his mom and dad would never accept having a foreign woman in the family. Ever. ...