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Why addressing loneliness in children can prevent a lifetime of loneliness in adults

  • Written by Elizabeth Tillinghast, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons; Faculty Member, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Columbia University Medical Center
imageLoneliness in adults is often a result of loneliness in childhood. From www.shutterstock.com

The Republicans’ controversial effort to repeal the perhaps optimistically named Affordable Care Act because of rising premiums may be fatally stalled. But there are other ways to rein in health care costs that have been almost entirely overlooked....

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