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Monica Starkman

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I'm a psychiatrist/novelist. My novel: The End of Miracles, draws deeply from my experiences on psychiatric units and with patients. I also write regularly for, and have my own page, as an Expert for Psychology Today : https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/... Other articles have appeared in MariaShriver.com, The New Republic and Vogue.
I'm a clinician, scientific researcher and teacher at the University of Michigan's Medical School. Many of my scientific articles are about conditions related to women and reproduction, such as the first investigations of women’s reactions to the use of fetal monitors during labor. This interest in the psychology of women related to reproduction is at the core of The End of Miracles. So you could say that my
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The End of Miracles

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What Is a Good Mother?

Parenting is at times a source of anxiety and guilt, but it's mainly a joyful experience. Helpful insights from researchers and clinicians can ease the way.
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In a word: terrific! The writing is fluid, the story engrossing, the characters unique and interesting, the history enlightening.
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“Something out of nothing, she thought. The perfect parallel to pregnancy.”
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“Pain was always cruel, but it was cruelest when it came to children. Sometimes she would see a child she recognized from a prior hospitalization, going through the admissions procedure. Crying not in the indignant frightened way first-timers cried, but weeping silently, as if grieving the inevitable separation and pain to come”
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“Each night they left the balcony door open so they could hear the surf lapping against the sand. And, once when the wind was high, and the waves pounded against the beach, he'd smoothed her hair and whispered, after having proved it so, 'Sex is like a storm; it gathers, it roars. And then it settles into stillness.”
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