While I wait to hear how serious a threat my returned lymphoma is to my health, and what treatment I will receive, I tread two separate paths. The first is an upbeat, we’ll-weather-this-just-like-before path; the second is a road of I’m-depressed, I’m-depressed, I’m-depressed. I came home from the city yesterday absolutely exhausted... Read more
When I left my analyst’s office for the last time, way back in 1963, he told me one thing to keep me going. I was heading back to New York City, where I’d been born, after six years in California, learning my craft of film-making. “Keep doing creative things,” he said. I took that statement for granted. How else would I ply my trade... Read more
I read on this site that a Dutch study showed “that psychotherapy doesn’t work” with families in which there were suicides. To put it another way, people whose loved ones killed themselves have a hard time getting over their grief and psychotherapy didn’t seem to help. Marieke de Groot, at the University of Groningen, and team members... Read more
A very interesting article in the New York Times Science section of 4/24/07 is worth commenting upon.It asks, does a psychiatrist need to have experienced depression in order to be able to treat depression?The larger issue: what happens when you feel that your battle with depression requires someone who has been through your particular life... Read more
Some years ago, I was making videos for an organization with a huge campaign about end-of-life care (palliation, hospice, Living Wills, etc.) They made a large contribution to the field by getting a Los Angeles film professional to serve as liaison with the television and motion picture industry. This man made certain that producers knew to... Read more
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