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When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the…

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I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and…
Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox…
But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite…
In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent…
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.
And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half,…
Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling others evil,…
Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that…
One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly…
As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were…

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