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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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