They grow up so fast

Grow up? Not so fast.

Michele, Ellen, Nathan, Corinne, Marcus and Jennie are friends. All of them live in Chicago. They go out three nights a week, sometimes more. Each of them has had several jobs since college; Ellen is on her 17th, counting internships, since 1996. They don’t own homes. They change apartments frequently. None of them are married, none have children. All of them are from 24 to 28 years old. Thirty...

"Why do they have to grow up so fast?" Parental separation anxiety and emerging adults' pathology of separation-individuation.

This study examined associations between parental separation anxiety, controlling parenting, and difficulties in the separation-individuation process, as manifested in separation-individuation pathology. In a sample of emerging adults involved in the process of home leaving (N = 232) and their parents, it was found that parental separation anxiety is positively related to separation-individuati...

"I Won't Grow Up"

To die and so to grow.

When I was a little girl, I went through a time when I was mute. I was five years old, and my family had just moved from New York City to Athens, Greece. I went from spending my days primarily with my grandmother, who was unusually sensitive and attuned to me, to being in the midst of a huge crowd of family and friends. The atmosphere went from being quiet, contemplative, and connected, to one ...

Giving Up on Precision Oncology? Not So Fast!

The vision of matching the right patient to the right treatment at the right time has always been the Holy Grail of oncology. Until recently, very few cancer patients enjoyed the benefits of truly “personalized” a.k.a. precision therapy. With the exploding knowledge of tumor genotype, as well as increasingly available targeted treatment options, it seems that the era of precision cancer medicin...