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My Mother’s Death / My Father’s Resurrection

May 13, 2016 Stanley Siegel 0

This morning my mother died. Her death followed a long struggle with several illnesses, all related to smoking during the fifty-three years of her marriage. She began at a time when smoking was fashionable and […]

Marja Hagborg – The Rabbit Hole On Devil’s Island

May 22, 2014 Editor 6

1. It didn’t matter whether it was Monday or Tuesday or still Friday, or if it was day or night, the past and the future were slipping away. It felt like being in a tube […]

Misdiagnosed

January 28, 2014 Adam A. Neal 3

“Fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking.” With each swear, the scissor blade hit my arms, but the pain never surfaced. I was already in too much pain for it to matter. “Fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking.” I cursed […] […]

Journey Through Madness

November 26, 2013 Dan L. Edmunds, Ed.D. 7

What is termed “madness” or “mental illness” is for some the only means for expression of their being lost and confused in a world which has caused them deep hurt and pain. Such is not disease but […] […]

Stanley Siegel, LCSW – Exquisite Unions: Final AIDS

June 24, 2013 Editor 0

[An excerpt from The Patient Who Cured His Therapist: And Other Stories of Unconventional Therapy by Psychology Tomorrow’s Editor-in-Chief Stanley Siegel] I was teaching family therapy at the University of California at Berkeley and working with the AIDS Project […]

My Mother’s Death / My Father’s Resurrection

March 7, 2013 Stanley Siegel 11

This morning my mother died. Her death followed a long struggle with several illnesses, all related to smoking during the fifty-three years of her marriage. She began at a time when smoking was fashionable and […] […]