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Welcome to The Lost Instinct by Erica Komisar, LCSW. This publication is a home for my writing where I reflect on the science, the culture, the politics, and more surrounding motherhood and parenting.
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We Traded Nuance for Diagnosis, and Our Families Are Paying for It (opens the original)
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Last month, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about a woman who, on her therapist’s advice, cut off her mother for ten years. She went in wanting to work on boundaries and came out believing contact itself was the problem.The cost to her was not abstract. She met her future husband and married without her mother. She buried her grandparents without the one person built to grieve alongside her. Other relatives, unwilling to accept her choice, cut her off t
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