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Mar.10.2009
"So, I guess you’re wondering what I want to talk about. I mean, why else would I be here if I didn’t have—‘issues,’ you call them… right?” “That is the clinical term, Stanley, yes,” said Dr. Alexandra McCormick, smiling slyly. She looked about 40, on the slender side and tall—...
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Feb.27.2009
I don’t sleep.
Not strictly speaking, obviously, because if I didn’t sleep at all I’d be, in a word, dead. By which I mean dead in the literal, physiological sense, in the way Immanuel Kant is dead or Ronald Colman, as opposed to a looser interpretation—e.g. “Vaudeville is dead,” or...
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Feb.19.2009
Review
Book reviewer Jacqueline Jung says the disintegration of a love affair sent relationship author Tim Kellis on a quest to figure out why-as well as how he could ultimately experience a blissful relationship.
According to Jung's review published in NightsAndWeekends.com, Kellis found some...
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Feb.15.2009
If you are a swinger and you are offended by my blog, I guess I apologize. The art of swinging fell into my very suburban lap about two years ago. If you don't know what swinging is, I will tell you. It is where a supposedly very happy, normal couple decide swapping partners with another couple...
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Jan.16.2009
I'm on line at the market; I note that Oprah once again graces the cover of the Enquirer, as well as her own magazine. Nothing new here – what is it this time. Stedman, her weight, her argument with Dr. Phil, Rachel Ray, Michelle Obama? It’s a long checkout line; I thumb through the Enquirer...
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Jan.01.2009
One night in my tiny NYC apartment, a friend told me the story of his older brother's death. Feeling not only sympathy for my friend's loss but admiration for the power of his telling, I thought "He's a writer."
Later, when he showed me his poetry, published in Pakistan (his native land...
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Dec.15.2008
Jung at Heart (http://www.jung-at-heart.com/jung_at_heart) suggests that Freud's definition of health as the ability to love and work is a good goal for therapy.
It sounds good but I wonder how often it really works. I was in Freudian analysis for years--I've written about in in my memoir The Last...
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Nov.29.2008
Over twenty years ago, I went to a therapist who worked for a very popular HMO in the Bay Area. Times weren't flush, so I saved a huge bundle by going to this fellow, handing over my ten dollars instead of 80. The idea of bargain hunting for one's mental health is pretty damn bizarre, but I didn'...
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Oct.26.2008
Whether we sit alone or sit together, we sit in the ba. “Ba” is Japanese for a circumstance of a shared space: “what I feel now is not in me, but in the ba” (1).
Life is movement. There is no movement without friction. This friction you feel when you sit (meditatively) alone is the feel of the...
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