It was so exhilarating, that total concentration on the body-the spinning, whirling, leaping, flying. She could almost hear the demands of the instructor and the monotonous beat of the drum measuring out the rhythms, almost feel her abdomen contracting deeply into itself, and her arms stretching almost out of their sockets to touch the air beyond their reach. It was a pattern from the modern dance class she had taken last year at the Y: contract, release, stretch, extend, move. That sequence of movement-bending, extending, stretching, releasing-stirred her bodily memory. She swung her legs to the floor, leaned her weight forward, and lifted herself out and up. Steven savored his weekend morning sleep, and she didn’t want to deprive him of it. She opened her eyes, and the babies flickered and faded as they disintegrated into the room’s darkness.Ĭautiously, she snaked her way to the edge of the bed. Better to get up, move about, dispel all traces of it. The dream was not frightening, not even unpleasant, but today Margo didn’t want to linger with it, with the strange images, the faint sensation on her lips and tongue. It was like coming up from the sea sputtering a mouthful of water, salty and alive with life forms. Starkman M.D.The dream was always the same-a flood of babies dribbling out of her mouth, dozens, tumbling head over heels. Starkman is a recognized expert on the effects of stress hormones on mood and brain structures and the principal investigator of several research grants from the National Institutes of Health. Her professional publications include papers on subjects such as false pregnancy (pseudocyesis), psychological reactions to the fetal monitor, and parent-to-adolescent renal transplantation. It is a suspenseful story about a woman who unravels psychologically after harrowing infertility and a tragic miscarriage, the shocking choices she makes, and the psychiatrists and close ones who try to save her. Starkman's decades of experience with psychosomatic medicine, infertility, depression, and psychotherapy. Her novel The End of Miracles draws on Dr. Her clinical and research work centers on psychosomatic medicine: the interactions between mind/brain and body. Monica Starkman, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry, active emerita, at the University of Michigan Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry, a faculty member of its Depression Center, and a novelist.
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