Clearing the Record

In a Dec. 2 Currents article, a photograph of two women at the funeral of police officer Daniel Faulkner shows his widow, Maureen Faulkner, and his mother, Mary Faulkner.

Part of a Dec. 9 Currents article discussed the ironic benefits of sadness in the work of Mother Teresa. The next sentence should have read: "Most intense sadness probably will not have such beneficial results - but we might reconsider what is lost when we unthinkingly consider the human emotions that follow loss as mental disorders." The authors, Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield are also authors of

The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder

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