Jacqueline Olds
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Jacqueline Olds

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I am a psychiatrist in Cambridge, MA who writes books with my husband, Dr. Richard S. Schwartz. The books so far have been on the topics of lasting marriages, and social isolation. First we wrote Overcoming Loneliness in Everyday Life in 1996. Then we wrote Marriage in Motion:The Natural Ebb and Flow of Lasting Relationships. And more recently, we wrote The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the 21st Century. We live and practice here in Cambridge. We have two grown children, Nathaniel Schwartz and Sarah Elizabeth Schwartz. They are both married and we now have four grandchildren, Oren , Adella, Asher, and Maya. It has given us a wonderful new sense of the circle of time to see our grandchildren start to grow up! We have been interested in relationships and how their presence or absence affects everyday life since the late 1970s when we both became psychiatrists and psychoanalysts. Our books reflect both our own clinical experience as well as much sociology data which we researched while writing on these topics. They are all trade books written for non-professionals who are interested. One of our recent projects was the invention of a wearable sensor for bright light designed to help people get better sleep and boost their energy and mood. It allowed you to know when you have received enough "bright light" in the day to help stabilize your circadian rhythm. (You can get the bright light from a therapeutic light box or sunlight.) The device is known as SunSprite. We are currently very interested in pursuing our interest in how to help people shed light on what gives meaning to their lives. This topic came up often during the pandemic in therapy sessions, and we realized that because psychiatry is a medical specialty, the medical model reigns supreme in medical psychotherapy. But this doesn't do justice to what makes people feel fulfilled and purposeful in their lives. We wish to restore discussion of purpose and meaning to regular psychotherapy as it is now practiced.
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