IN downtown Ann Arbor, Mich., a 30year-old mother walked through a door marked Crisis Walk-in Clinic last month and confessed that she had beaten her one-year-old daughter so savagely that the child had had to be hospitalized. It was the first of nine visits, to some of which, at the clinic's suggestion, she brought her husband. Gradually, and gently, staff therapists elicited part of her story: that she had been forced into an unwanted marriage. Eventually they were able to deduce that the child was only a surrogate for an elaborate complex of wrath...
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