Tuesday, September 11, 2001, was a non-teaching day for me. I was home when the phone rang at 9 A.M. …
“But yet mathematical certainty is after all, something insufferable. Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of…
“This is slavery, not to speak one’s thoughts.” – Euripides, The Phoenician Women Some time ago on a Sunday evening…
Because there is so much personal anguish, unhappiness, and human mental and physical suffering in the world, many people often…
I sit here in the silence of the awakening dawn’s stillness stunned by the realization that I exist. I wonder…
Social psychosis is widespread. In the words of the British psychiatrist, R. D. Laing, “The condition of alienation, of being…
Sometimes you wake up from a dream to realize it is telling you to pay close attention to the depth…
For thirty years I have taken my father’s name in the vain hope that some of his exquisite writing and character would be recognized through his son’s hand.
I think it is generally accepted that the practice of medicine has changed radically over the past fifty or so years. The medicalization and corporatization of life have “progressed” simultaneously as most doctors have become obedient servants of the corporate state.