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Patricia (Trish) Broderick, PhD, is an assistant research professor at the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development at Penn State University, Professor Emerita and founder of the Stress Reduction Center at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction advanced practicum at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Broderick is a licensed clinical psychologist as well as a certified school psychologist and counselor for grades K through 12. In addition, she is the author of The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals (Pearson), Learning to BREATHE: A Mindfulness Curriculum for Adolescents (New Harbinger), and Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents (Norton). Learning to BREATHE is also available in Chinese from Big Apple Publishers. For information about Learning to BREATHE and for research papers related to her work, please see: www.learning2breathe.org
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Patricia Broderick
American playwright and painter
For the D.C. Superior Court judge, see Patricia A. Broderick.
Patricia Biow Broderick (February 23, 1925 – November 18, 2003) was an American playwright and painter. She was the wife of actor James Broderick and the mother of actor Matthew Broderick.
Early life and career
Broderick was born Patricia Biow in New York City, the daughter of Sophie (née Taub) (1895–1943) and Milton H. Biow (1892–1976), president of an advertising firm.[1][2][3] Her family were Jewish immigrants from Germany and Poland.[4][5][6][7] When she was 18, her mother died in 1943 at the age of 48. Her father died 33 years later when she was 51. In Mexico, Broderick studied painting with Rufino Tamayo who had been her art teacher at the Dalton School in Manhattan.[8] She began writing plays in the 1940s and several of them were performed in New York and London. Her 1996 screenplay for Infinity was based on the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynm
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For the Greenwich Village autobiographical artist Patricia Broderick, painting was a means of recalling familial memories and past life events. Broderick took inspiration from important moments, such as illness or death, and quiet contemplative moments to act as stages for her murky mysterious figurative works. Her aesthetic bares a highly charged psychological atmosphere, often leaving one with feelings of an awkward comedy or a foreboding melancholy. The viewer can easily get lost in Broderick’s vignettes, where she leaves her figures stranded in solitarily longing, gazing out at distant landscapes through their own windows.
Born in 1925 to Milton and Sophie Taub Biow, Jewish immigrants from Germany and Poland, Patricia Biow was raised on the Upper East Side in New York City before devoting a majority of her life to the Village. During her teenage years at the Dalton School, she painted under the tutelage of the Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo and Vaclav Vytiacil. She continued to study with Tamayo, on an extended sojourn with Tamay
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