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Not my first rodeo
posted: Jan. 05, 2020.
It is my last weekend in Tel Aviv and the hotel treated us to disasters of biblical proportions. What next? I'll end up in the stomach of a whale and Read more -
The nondozing chosen
posted: Dec. 31, 2019.
Dear Reader: Last New Year's Eve, I wrote of my experience with a tale of two cities: one, the soup kitchen, two, the lavish gala to which I was invited. Read more -
Everything is a compromise and nothing is magic
posted: Dec. 26, 2019.
Who was the first insomniac? I doubt it was Adam. Was it Eve, pondering over the road not taken? Did she wish she could undo her decision. When suckling Read more -
Eve: The first human
posted: Dec. 17, 2019.
This week was marked by my mourning return to morning minyan, as it is coming up to the 7th yahrzeit of my father. Seven years is an important number in Read more -
My encounter with cybertherapy: Part II
posted: Dec. 10, 2019.
Dear Reader: I absolutely cannot get this cybertherapy issue out of my head, for it is an Orwellian misuse of language, taking therapy, a beautiful event, and turning it into Read more -
My encounter with cybertherapy
posted: Dec. 08, 2019.
Yesterday, the topic in my Intro to Psych class was Psychotherapy. The book lists the usual theories and modes of conducting treatment and included cybertherapy. I mentioned some caveats with Read more -
Psychology never misses a chance to muss a chance
posted: Dec. 04, 2019.
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April is the cruelest month: November is a close contender
posted: Nov. 26, 2019.
We are at the waning of the year. Nights grow nippy. Dawn's ascent sends shivers up the spine. Shivering in one's bed, wrapped in quilts, makes a psychologist mighty contemplative Read more -
7K went bust: The finale
posted: Nov. 13, 2019.
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Empathy: It's all that it's cracked up to be
posted: Nov. 03, 2019.
There have been very few instances where I have experienced being with someone who was truly empathic, someone whom I believed wasn't involved with me as part of a transaction, Read more -
$7K or Strike: Part III
posted: Oct. 21, 2019.
Today was a day of action for those of us in on the minutae of the PSC's splinter sect--strike before the iron's been plugged in. While the PSC assures us Read more -
7K or strike? Part II
posted: Oct. 14, 2019.
The breakaway sect of the PSC has voted for a strike. They claim unanimity, but it's an awfully big claim. There were about 30 adjuncts present. I abstained. The Read more -
Organization is a sign of mental health, not a symptom of the lack thereof
posted: Oct. 08, 2019.
Psychologists, whether they be in private practice or community clinics, rely on such a telescopic interview. Of course, this interview is alleged to be "biopsychosocial," as it makes inquiries into Read more -
Ho the ox
posted: Sep. 06, 2019.
They're brilliant but their greasy locks, do jump that jive and wave. All antsy were the adjuncts, as the part-timers did rage. All right, I am no Lewis Carroll. I don't Read more -
Bat out of Hell: The Zombie Version
posted: Aug. 23, 2019.
When I was an adolescent, achingly aspiring and ambitious to ambulate out of Unfunky Scummedrine, my anthem album was Meatloaf's "Bat out of Hell." It articulated all my inchoate longings: Read more -
Pirkei Avot
posted: Aug. 22, 2019.
In President Trump's opinion, "you vote for a Democrat, you're being very disloyal to the Jewish people and you're being very disloyal to Israel." Trump is ephemera. What is eternal: Pirkei Read more
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