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The psychiatrist’s wife is an extremely intelligent and competent woman: she was a math prodigy when she was younger, and she has a successful and fulfilling career as an adult. However, after the psychiatrist and his wife’s son starts to misbehave in school, the wife gives up her career to stay home with the son full time. She gradually loses her sense of purpose and control, so much so that the psychiatrist is horrified one night to see his wife compulsively completing their son’s elementary school-level math workbooks, claiming that the problems are “fun” and engaging. She claims to like them because they give her a sense of “control” she lacks in every other aspect of her life.
The Psychiatrist’s Wife Quotes in Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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Chapter 6: 2016 Quotes
Looking at the moments and scenes in Kim Jiyoung’s life that she chose to share in our sessions, I realize that I may have diagnosed her hastily. I’m not saying I was wrong, only that I’ve come to realize there is a world that I wasn’t aware of.
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Even the best female employees can cause many problems if they don’t have the childcare issue taken care of. I’ll have to make sure her replacement is unmarried.
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The Psychiatrist’s Wife Character Timeline in Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
The timeline below shows where the character The Psychiatrist’s Wife appears in Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6: 2016
The psychiatrist’s parents live in the far south, and the psychiatrist’s wife ’s parents live in the United States, so his wife at first got by with...
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The boy’s teacher “prescribe[s] ‘stay-at-home mommy’” as a cure for his misbehavior, so the psychiatrist’s wife quits her job to tend to her son. At first she planned to return to...
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