Posted on September 6th, 2016 by Dr. Blumenfield
My Memories of “9/11” on the 15th Anniversary of September 11, 2001 Introduction If you have any memories of 15 years ago you certainly remember where you were, what you did and how you felt when terrorists took over two large airline planes filled with passengers and crashed them into the World Trade Center in […]
Posted on June 10th, 2016 by Dr. Blumenfield
The following is a book review which I wrote and appeared in Psychodynamic Psychiatry Volume 41 Number 3 Fall 2016 p 162-166 Moving Images: Psychoanalytic Reflections of Film, by Andrea Sabbadini, Routledge, London and New York, 2014, 140 pp. While reading this book, I kept pondering the question of who would be the best audience […]
Posted on February 13th, 2016 by Dr. Blumenfield
I am moving to a new phase of this blog. From time to time I will interview a person who I think might be of interest to the readers of this blog. I am very pleased to interview psychiatrist Dr. Jeffery Smith who is the author of a new exciting book titled Getting the Most […]
Posted on January 13th, 2016 by Dr. Blumenfield
What She Left Behind By Ellen Marie Wiseman This book is composed of two interweaving stories. Clara, a woman who lived in the 1930s was committed to a mental institution against her will based on her wealthy father’s unhappiness about her Italian immigrant boyfriend and her refusal to marry the rich guy that her father […]
Posted on December 12th, 2015 by Dr. Blumenfield
A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey through the Past and Future Mental Illness and Addiction By: Patrick J. Kennedy and Stephen Fried This is a story, told in the first person of Patrick J. Kennedy. It is really two stories presented to us simultaneously. It is about Patrick Kennedy, son of Edward Kennedy and nephew […]
