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Opinion What ketamine therapy taught me about my Jewish intergenerational trauma
In July of 2021, I found myself in a Manhattan clinic wearing an eye mask and headphones, about to receive my fifth of six injections of therapeutic ketamine. “What’s your intention for this session?” asked my therapist, poised with a notebook to record the answer. “I’d like to encounter my ancestors or my guides,” I…
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News Antisemitism: How to respond if you’re the victim or a witness
While a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Gaza seems to be holding despite tit-for-tat violence last Wednesday, American Jews are still reeling from a reported surge in antisemitism following the conflict in the Middle East. Incidents include a window at a kosher pizzeria in Manhattan shattered with a brick, a synagogue door in Utah vandalized…
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The Schmooze Jeff Goldblum’s Wife: We Went To Couples Counseling Before The Wedding
With the nation’s hearts and minds turned to therapeutic intervention in the wake of the terrible loss of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain this week, let’s turn to the story of a couple who speaks openly about the benefit of seeking care. Emilie Livingston, the former Olympian and Canadian aerial gymnastics champion, posted a tribute…
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Life A Jewish Therapist Asks: ‘How Can I Treat Patients When the World is Spinning Out of Control?’
Since Trump became President Elect, my ‘fear belly’ has returned. I first experienced this acidic-laced stabbing in the gut as a child listening to my mother’s stories about the horrors of her childhood in Dabrowa, Poland. By the time I became a therapist in mid-life, fear belly had largely dissipated. Helping patients find their strength…
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Life How Does a Therapy ‘Junkie’ Say Goodbye to Shrink
“The prognosis is very poor,” she told me that night over the phone. Joan, my therapist at the time, had keeled over while painting in an art class. “If she lives,” Barbara explained to me, as she’d been explaining and would continue to explain over the phone to Joan’s patients all night, “she won’t ever…
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The Schmooze This 100-Year-Old Sex Therapist Has Advice For You
Move over Dr. Ruth — there’s a (not-so) new sassy Jewish sex-therapist in town. And she just turned 100 years old. But as Charlotte Altman at Time Magazine points out, Shirley Zussman’s venerable age may actually be the least astounding thing about her. An almost lifelong Manhattanite, she lived in Berlin during the cabaret years,…
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Breaking News Jewish ‘Gay Cure’ Group Hit by Lawsuit
Four gay men who underwent treatment designed to change their sexual orientation filed a lawsuit in New Jersey on Tuesday accusing their therapists of fraud, in what may be the first suit of its kind against conversion therapists. Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH), a Jersey City-based non-profit organization, falsely claimed to be able…
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