Baby Doll Games

Author:Margaret Maron [Maron, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents, Mystery
ISBN: 9780727862792
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Personal notes of Dr. Christa Ferrell, re: Corrie Makaroff [Sunday, 1 November-It occurs to me that in addition to clinical notes, I should be keeping a journal of “color” background for the paper I plan to submit next summer to the regional conference of psychotherapists. Touches of human interest will make a livelier presentation.

Sigrid Harald's name was on one of those police reports It then when she turned up again yesterday at that dreadful death, the coincidence was too good not to take advantage of-a real stroke of luck. Ever since her mother came talked at one of St. Margaret's career days, I've always made it a point to read the credit lines at the edge of photos in magazines & news journals her byline’s there several times a year. If I can get Anne Harald interested in this case-well, they do say a picture's worth a thousand words.

Measurable difference between S.H. & her mother; Repressed resentment there? S.H. was standoffish & quiet at school, a classic loner, while A.H. seemed friendly, open, easy to talk to. Pretty, too, as I recall. S.H. must take after her father?

S. such a neatnik at St. M's-never got called down for messy room. Everything picked up or hung up Probably why she went in for police work Fetish for order? Don't remember any signs of wanting power. She never went out for any offices.

Mustn't get sidetracked with S.H's hang-ups tho This joumal's about the Makaroff children. I'll begin with Martha's broad motherly face which looked troubled when she entered my office at the mental health center in mid-August & asked if she could bother me a minute.] Martha Holt is one of Social Services’ best field workers, a concerned human cog in a bureaucracy so- hamstrung by red tape, budget cuts and overwork that it sometimes forgets it’s supposed to ease problems, not make new ones.

[NB-For the past year I've been doing psychiatric evaluations for NYC, getting in some solid experience before opening a private practice of my own9 &r I’ve already seen more hard-core misery than I'd ever imagined possible back in the suburban hospital where I interned 6 certainly more than I'd been led to expect during those classes at my comfortably affluent med. school.] The problems caused by grinding poverty are so discouraging that I know I won’t last here much longer, but Martha’s been at it twenty-three years. Often frustrated and occasionally depressed, she somehow goes on doing her bit to make the world a better place for her clients.

My specialty is pediatric psychotherapy, which is why she brought her anxieties about the Makaroff children to me that morning rather than to one of the generalists on the staff. I’ve untangled some emotional knots before they tied up a child’s psyche and I think I’ve helped avert a few psychoses, but it’s not as simple as working with Calder and his little friends at that dance theater where every child comes from a loving, middle-class home. Working at Social Services is like handing out bandaids when tourniquets and pressure bandages are needed.

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