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Nothing in Daphne Merkin's article helps me understand Alice Munro's fiction more clearly, or, since I have not in the past actually found her fiction all that engaging, why I should it give it another chance.

The Biographical Fallacy 2009

Merkin's series (which features Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo ) incorporates the additional innovation of having all of its participants compose scores for Buster Keaton 's silent-film comedies, and climaxes with a performance by the expressive Howard Fishman (offering a score to Keaton's "Frozen North").

The Jazz Scene: Giving Cole the Royal Treatment Will Friedwald 2012

Messing's Molly Kagan carries Merkin's patent croc/satin Molly bag, in amethyst, on the show. $295 at Laurenmerkin. com

Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup 2010

I thought that Merkin's essay hoisted us on our own petard.

Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Why We Need a "Practical Psychoanalysis" D.M.H. Michael Bader 2010

Merkin's variation on this theme is that her idealization of her analysts 'wisdom and the rhythms and imagery of a psychoanalytic conversation have been more comforting than anything she's been offered in the way of interpretation and insight.

Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Why We Need a "Practical Psychoanalysis" D.M.H. Michael Bader 2010

But in my reading, the interesting subtext of Merkin's article is that quick fixes don't offer much either.

Tamara McClintock Greenberg: The Lives Of Therapists and the Limits of Analysis 2010

Merkin's article reminds me of how the psychoanalytic approach to healing "neurosis" and other "maladies" of the psyche can be limiting and risk leaving patients more vulnerable to having the self disregarded, even rejected.

Jane Shure: Reflections on the Doctor Patient Hierarchy in Psychotherapy 2010

But in my reading, the interesting subtext of Merkin's article is that quick fixes don't offer much either.

Tamara McClintock Greenberg: Therapy Lives and the Lives of Therapists 2010

We've come a long way since those days close to 20 years ago, but reading Merkin's article, I'm saddened to say, reminds me of how much further we have to go.

Jane Shure: Reflections on the Doctor Patient Hierarchy in Psychotherapy 2010

When I read Merkin's essay, I thought back to Janet Malcolm's New Yorker articles, often biting accounts of psychoanalytic politics and the insularity of the analytic establishment.

Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Why We Need a "Practical Psychoanalysis" D.M.H. Michael Bader 2010