I received the following letter concerning the tricky business of maintaining a relationship: Dear Will, I’m a recent law school graduate studying for the bar exam. I just got into another argument with my boyfriend of four years, and I’m feeling frustrated and upset. Our relationship tends to break down when I’m going through a [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Unbalanced
Posted in AskThePeople'sTherapistSeries, tagged balance, psychotherapy, regression, relationships on December 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Will’s Kids
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged Bernie Madoff, Columbia Law School, compassion fatigue, Harvard, Jerry Lewis, Jerry Lewis Telethon, Jerry's Kids, Joseph P Shapiro, MDA, Muscular Dystrophy Association, No Pity, poster child, poster children on December 14, 2011 | 22 Comments »
It’s hard to generate sympathy for lawyers – especially when the group of people you’re milking for sympathy is other lawyers. At first glance, that seems counter-intuitive. I’m writing about your fellow attorneys, after all, and they’re in miserable straits. I feel sorry for them. I want to help. But then, I’m a bleeding heart [...]
Dr. Joy. Dr. Dream.
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged cancer, freude, Joy, Leonard Woolf, Mozart, music, Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks, Salvador Dali, Sigmund Freud, Suicide, The Moses of Michelangelo, Theodor Reik, Virginia Woolf on December 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
There is a curious passage in a recent book by Oliver Sacks, “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,” in which Sacks discusses whether Sigmund Freud liked music. There are contemporary accounts of Freud that mention he rarely listened to music, and only permitted himself to be “dragged” to opera on rare occasion – and [...]
Judge a Book by its Cover
Posted in About This Site, Current Events, Thoughts and Musings, tagged Amazon, book, Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy on December 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The paperback version of my first book – “Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy” is now available on Amazon.com. The terrific new cover is by Christine Sullivan, of cstudiodesign. I hope you’ll take a look.
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