As I mentioned in a previous post, my father was non-verbal, relying more on facial tics and glowering expressions to communicate. Frequently, when frustrated, he strode out of the house.
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Sam Surprises (in photo above, my father is in the middle)
posted: Aug 30, 2018.
As I mentioned in a previous post, my father was non-verbal, relying more on facial tics and glowering expressions to communicate. Frequently, when frustrated, he strode out of the house.
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Hurray for our neck of the woods
posted: Aug 17, 2018.
This city has a heck of a time selling itself, when it has so many splendid additions occurring daily. I was treated to a ride on the new NYC ferry service, Read more -
More things never to discuss with your therapist
posted: Aug 15, 2018.
Last January, my dead father visited me on his yahrzeit. It was about 6:AM and I awokened suddenly to the sound of hissing. At first, I thought perhaps I had Read more -
Wombs are good
posted: Aug 15, 2018.
Well, recently I posted that my mother has downsized from a room to a womb. I regret that statement. A womb is a place for potential to develop. An embryo
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Follow the fellow who follows the dream
posted: Aug 12, 2018.
The title of this post probably accurately diagnosis my problem: I'm alone in this world. I have never married. Never successfully maintained a relationship with a romantic partner. I meet Read more -
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
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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
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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
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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].
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