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Daniel B. Smith

Daniel B. Smith teaches writing at the College of New Rochelle and is the author of Muses, Madmen and Prophets: Hearing Voices and the Borders of Sanity. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, and The New York Times Magazine.

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The Doctor Is IN

At 88, Aaron Beck is now revered for an approach to psychotherapy that pushed Freudian analysis aside

by Daniel B. Smith | Tuesday, September 01, 2009
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Fathers and Sons

by James McConkey

“Could we have been better parents?” At 87, Cornell emeritus professor James McConkey reflects on the inadvertent ways that parents—especially fathers—shape their children. “Most parents don’t want their children to suffer the kind of grief inflicted on them by their own parents,” he says in this essay from our Spring 2008 issue. “By saving them from that, though, they may inflict upon their children difficulties of another kind.” As the father to three sons, McConkey is acutely aware of how his relationship with his own father informed his relationship with his children. His essay “What Kind of Father Am I?” is a meditation on aging, parenthood, and the bond between fathers and sons.