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Leavings
Stories From Life Lucas McGranahan 5/7/25 Stories From Life Lucas McGranahan 5/7/25

Leavings

A poetic memoir of an analyst’s mourning

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Between Two Names
Stories From Life Marshall Byler 5/6/25 Stories From Life Marshall Byler 5/6/25

Between Two Names

Decolonization isn’t about rejecting one identity for another

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White Noise
Stories From Life Marshall Byler 4/28/25 Stories From Life Marshall Byler 4/28/25

White Noise

Is today’s schizophrenic media multiverse the companionable entity that TV once was?

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Psychiatry, Integration, and Civil Rights
Stories From Life Marshall Byler 8/11/24 Stories From Life Marshall Byler 8/11/24

Psychiatry, Integration, and Civil Rights

They were suspicious of us Jews from the North. They thought we were masquerading as Americans.

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The Fifth Beatle
Stories From Life Marshall Byler 8/5/24 Stories From Life Marshall Byler 8/5/24

The Fifth Beatle

I turned around. There was only one other person in the locker room, and it was Paul McCartney.

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ADDICTED TO YOU
Stories From Life Marshall Byler 3/3/24 Stories From Life Marshall Byler 3/3/24

ADDICTED TO YOU

On an evening in 2011, my then-boyfriend nearly strangled me to death in my bedroom.

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THE REVERSAL OF HELPLESSNESS WITH DISPLACEMENT
Stories From Life Marshall Byler 3/3/24 Stories From Life Marshall Byler 3/3/24

THE REVERSAL OF HELPLESSNESS WITH DISPLACEMENT

In my clinical experience, addictions are neither more nor less than compulsions, psychological problems which we know how to treat.

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PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Stories From Life Maria Isabel Gouverneur 12/1/23 Stories From Life Maria Isabel Gouverneur 12/1/23

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Starting in the fall of 1980, I sequestered myself four mornings a week in a windowless cubicle beneath a Saks Fifth Avenue in suburban Philadelphia…

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CIVILIZATION AND ITS PLAYLIST
Stories From Life Maria Isabel Gouverneur 12/1/23 Stories From Life Maria Isabel Gouverneur 12/1/23

CIVILIZATION AND ITS PLAYLIST

Mr. Farley’s cultural references, and the historical moment of his psychoanalysis, are mine

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DISPLACEMENT
Stories From Life Maria Isabel Gouverneur 9/19/23 Stories From Life Maria Isabel Gouverneur 9/19/23

DISPLACEMENT

I was not born here. I was born in a place that no longer exists…

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ON BEING TORN
Commentary, Stories From Life Guest User 8/19/23 Commentary, Stories From Life Guest User 8/19/23

ON BEING TORN

Tati Nguyen’s recollection of her clandestine, frightening, hurried…

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