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Daphne Merkin

Project Nim: The Dope on a Charismatic Chimp

Regina Weinreich | Posted 08.30.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Joyce Butler, Elizabeth Hess, Nim Chimsky, Bob Ingersoll, Stephanie LaFarge, Edie Falco, Calvin Trillin, Deborah Solomon, Ellen Kuras, Julie Taymor, Daphne Merkin, Laura Ann Pettito, The Chimp Who Would Be Human, Herbert Terrace, Project Nim, Adam Gopnik, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Nim Chimsky, the star of a new movie, died too soon. A charming troublemaker, this chimp was the subject of an experiment in understanding language and communication.

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When Psychotherapists Fail to Help: Here's Why

Douglas LaBier | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mad Men, Psychotherapy, Values, Interconnectedness, New Age, Daphne Merkin, Sigmund Freud, Love, In Treatment, Mental Health, Healthy Living News
Douglas LaBier

Many people who enter psychotherapy today aren't helped at all. Some end up more troubled than when they began treatment.

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Reading The New Yorker, Thinking About Daphne Merkin

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Laura Baudo Sillerman, John Lurie, Women, Lounge Lizards, Depression, New Yorker, The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Chronic Depression, Writers and Depression, Women and Depression, Artists, Daphne Merkin, Wvfc, Tad Friend, John Perry, Women's Voices for Change, Arts News
Laura Baudo Sillerman

Merkin's meticulous dissections of depression have set a standard for courage in the face of the mind's adversities. She confronts herself again and again in ways that are excruciatingly revealing.

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The Lives Of Therapists and the Limits of Analysis

Tamara McClintock Greenberg | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: New York Times, Psychotherapy, Daphne Merkin, Finding a Therapist, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Tamara McClintock Greenberg

Maybe traditional psychoanalysis still needs a wake-up call about the limitations of the theory and the ways that patients have been let down, or even failed.

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The Incestuous Merkins Produce Ethically Murky Doings at the New York Times

Roger Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Andrew Cuomo, Clark Hoyt, J. Ezra Merkin, The New York Times, Andrew Rosenthal, Bernard Madoff, Daphne Merkin, Yeshiva University, Week in Review, Media News
Roger Smith

The Times thought it fitting to allow the sister of Erza Merkin who steered $2.4 billion to Madoff to be prominently featured, and allowed her to get away with the barest sort of disclosure.

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Katharine Zaleski

Daphne Merkin, Sister Of Major Madoff Money-Funder Ezra Merkin, Writes Op-Ed Questioning Victims

HuffingtonPost.com | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Bernard Madoff Op-Ed, Ny Times and Disclosure, Madoff Victims, Bernard Madoff, Daphne Merkin, NY Times, Ezra Merkin, Business News

On Sunday, the New York Times ran an op-ed column examining how so many could have been duped by Bernie Madoff. The op-ed dished out harsh words for...

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Like Your Time Alone? Then This Post is For You

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Creativity, Households, Aging, Divorce, Relationships, Loner, Daphne Merkin, School Shooters, Serial Murderers, Singles, Imagination, Atlantic Magazine, Work From Home, Happiness, Sociability, Isolation, Solitude, Anneli Rufus, American Psyche, Loneliness, Ostracism, Kids With Rooms of Their Own, Small Talk, Living Independently, Pseudo-Loners, Living Alone, Singled Out, Jonathan Rauch, Introvert, Demographics, Boredom, Healthy Living News
Bella DePaulo

I live in the most ordinary American household - I live alone. Knock on any door in the nation and you are more likely to find a household like mine t...

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