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Above are two clusters of chapters from a unique psychological novel, “people don’t drown in living rooms”. Written in two voices, in the form of epistolary exchanges between analyst and patient, this book is unique in its form as well as in its contextual content. Touching on the complexity of emotional and physical boundaries between therapist and client, through the tumultuous arena of erotic transference – as Danielle Knafo, professor, psychoanalyst and author, commented “This book teaches us more about the intensity of the love-hate dynamics that exist between patient and analyst than any journal article on the subject”.
This book was written by two authors; Dr. Orna Reuven, a psychoanalyst and lecturer from the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and Dr. Yair Eldan, a lecturer of law from The Hebrew University, who together embarked on an adventure knowing how it would begin but with no view of where it would end. During the writing of this book, they took it upon themselves to restrict their Continue reading People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan
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Hilary Russell
Good morning, everyone. Fall is upon us, it seems. Apples are ripe and abundant, and so does nature nourish and sustain us.
Our poet today, Hilary Russell, has had an interesting life. Having grown up outside of New York City, he now lives in the Berkshires, in Western Massachusetts. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University and a master’s from Wesleyan University. But what is interesting is what he now does for a living. After teaching high school English for many years, he took up small boat building and, through his company, Berkshire Boat Building School, he teaches classes in boat-building. While many, if not most poets have college and graduate school degrees, few, if any, build boats.
His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard, The George Washington Review, and other well-known journals. He is the author of Giving up the House, a chapbook (Mad River Press); The Anthology of American Poetry (Wayside Press), and The Portable Writer (Wayside Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: October 3, 2022