Eleanor Cummins

Nov 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Eleanor Cummins

On a rainy December day in 2022, I did what most New Yorkers loathe to do: I took the train to Times Square. I made my way into a testing center used by the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, somewhere between Margaritaville and Madame Tussauds. No, I had not been subpoenaed; rather, I was one multiple-choice test away from becoming a licensed sightseeing guide. All I had to do was answer 150 questions about history, architecture and transit in the five boroughs.

Oct 12, 2024 | ruthfullyyours.com | Ruth King |Eleanor Cummins

Why Therapy Is Broken Eleanor Cummins Everyone is telling one another to “get help,” but few acknowledge that the practice is often flawed.(Published September 26, 2022) https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-therapy-is-broken?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-usAn hour a week in a shrink’s office is increasingly treated as a prerequisite for a healthy, happy life. There, we imagine, friends learn new coping skills and enemies realize the errors of their ways.

Jun 26, 2024 | thepremierdaily.com | Eleanor Cummins

A childhood without affection can be devastating, even if basic needs are met. John Gluck’s excitement about studying parent-child separation quickly soured. He’d been thrilled to arrive at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the late 1960s, his spot in the lab of renowned behavioral psychologist Harry Harlow secure. Harlow had cemented his legacy more than a decade earlier when his experiments showed the devastating effects of broken parent-child bonds in rhesus monkeys.

May 15, 2024 | asktheoverthinker.substack.com | Eleanor Cummins

Welcome to the ninth edition of ASK THE OVERTHINKER, a different kind of advice column. I’m your semi-solicited advice-giver, Eleanor Cummins, and this week I’m offering truly unsolicited advice on things I think would make your life better. Have a question for The Overthinker? Share it anonymously here and it might be included in the next edition. Indyx (app)This app quite literally changed my life.

Mar 18, 2024 | flipboard.com | Eleanor Cummins

Neil Armstrong made history when he stepped onto the moon. Then some of the dust he carried back vanished. Neil Armstrong wasn’t sure he’d stick the landing. At 10:56 p.m. Eastern Time on July 20, 1969, as he made his giant leap for mankind, a range of possibilities floated in the astronaut’s mind. …