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SCREENING ROOM

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From: Psychotherapy Networker
Date: 20041101
Author:Pittman, Frank

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BY FRANK PITTMAN

During my many years toiling in this profession, I keep noticing that people who don't read novels seem to have a harder time getting inside the heads and hearts of their fellow human beings. After all, there are no more penetrating observers--or more astute psychologists--than the great 19th-century novelists, especially Dickens and his less celebrated contemporary William Makepeace Thackeray, who wrote face=+Italic; The Memoirs ...

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