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"Our memories become part of our identity," Apter told me.
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A domestic reckoning of sorts, the latest book by Apter, a psychologist, is an in-depth look at “the inescapable power of in-laws.”
Cover to Cover 2009
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A domestic reckoning of sorts, the latest book by Apter, a psychologist, is an in-depth look at “the inescapable power of in-laws.”
Cover to Cover 2009
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One sister interviewed by Apter commented on her sibling's narrative of the past: "Her memories are so twisted … It's outrageous how unfair she can be."
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In her book The Sister Knot, the psychologist Terri Apter describes how disagreements about childhood memories can be a source of rancour long into adulthood.
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To balance out a so-far-unrelieved diet of literary events, I went this morning to listen to psychologist Terri Apter give her Cambridge Series talk about sisters, the subject of her latest book.
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It was not until the late 1970s, said Apter, that psychologists moved en masse to include women in their studies at all; almost all psychological research was carried out on the (white) male mind.
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According to Apter, Beth the peacemaker's refrain of "Birds in their little nests agree" bears no relation to the real world whatever – she cited research on eagles which shows that of the two chicks normally produced by a mother, the elder will generally terrorise the younger until it dies of its wounds or starves to death.
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Apter spoke well on the subject, going into detail about her interrogation of the "passionate, complex, endlessly enlightening" bonds of sisterhood, and discussed both the ways in which we love, protect and nurture our sisters, as well as the equally powerful drive to compete with and/or clobber them.
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It is noteworthy that in both cases the exhibitions were overseen by women curators: Ruth Apter-Gabriel and Susan Tumarkin Goodman respectively.
Artists: Russia and the Soviet Union. Grigorij 2009
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