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Terminal Cancer Hasn’t Softened This Jewish Mother One Bit

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By Melissa Broder
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NIGHT NIGHT FAWN, by Jordy Rosenberg As the Yiddish proverb goes, “Two Jews, three opinions,” and it’s in this spirit of debate that Jordy Rosenberg writes his second novel, “Night Night Fawn.” Rosenberg brilliantly probes the dialectic between a mother’s often cruel judgments and actions toward her adult child, and the latter’s desire to consider the mother’s perspective with broad-minded compassion — even at his own expense.
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Melissa Broder on Jennifer Dawson‘s Forgotten 1961 Classic The Ha-Ha

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By Melissa Broder
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In The Ha-Ha, Jennifer Dawson relies on her own history as a patient in a psychiatric hospital to tell the story of Josephine Traughton, a young woman who suffers a breakdown while studying at Oxford in the 1950s and is institutionalized at a hospital in the English countryside. Article continues after advertisement Like Josephine, Dawson spent six months at Warneford Hospital in Oxford following a breakdown during her third year at St. Anne’s College.
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Can Sound Therapy Really Heal Your Brain?

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By Melissa Broder
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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The term “nervous breakdown” is no longer used—“mental-health crisis” is the nomenclature du jour—but I think I had one two years ago. My journey into the psychological night was precipitated by a propensity for clinical depression and catalyzed by the death of my father, the loss of two friends to suicide, and my husband’s transition into a wheelchair after years of chronic illness.
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