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  • On reading "Crime and Punishment" for the third time

    posted: Aug. 10, 2018.

    Every decade (or so) I find myself re-reading "Crime & Punishment."  The first time, I was 19.  I was an English major and it was required reading.  I was reading Read more
  • Not all hallucinations are psychotic

    posted: Aug. 08, 2018.

    Recently I wrote on how mental health professionals jump to psychosis when a patient claims to have experienced auditory, visual, gustatory, olfactory, or tactile hallucinations.   Since "everyone" knows these Read more
  • Who is crazy? Us--not the patients

    posted: Aug. 04, 2018.

    With Apologies to Ferenczi, who wondered whether it was the psychologist or the paiient.  After lo, these many a year, I no long wonder. I have always been curious about the Read more
  • Loss, unambiguous

    posted: Aug. 03, 2018.

    My mother and father married and moved into a one-bedroom in Flatbush.  Eight years, two children, and a job in NJ later, they moved into a four-bedroom quarter acre split Read more
  • Shrinks unhinged

    posted: Aug. 02, 2018.

    Earlier in this blog section I mentioned that ever since my first therapy encounter (usually with psychologists, but two with social workers), I would at some point be called, "arrogant Read more
  • Lehman Hall is on fire.

    posted: Jul. 24, 2018.

         No one tells you about the black walls or the lingering aftersmell of a fire.  Just thinking about it:  I can't breathe.  In mid October, 1978, the Friday Read more
  • History repeats itself: lastly as a farce. Not by Karl Marx

    posted: Jul. 24, 2018.

    ­Déjà vu all over again? By:  Sharon R. Kahn, Ph.D,   NYCPsych             His administrative staff’s life span is more fleeting than that of the sheep-liver fluke. Read more
  • Ambiguous Loss

    posted: Jul. 24, 2018.

    Malevolent transformations, post-ambiguous loss. Sharon R. Kahn, Ph.D [I wrote this three years ago.  The only thing that has changed is my mother is now in a rehab facility in NJ].     Read more

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