What My Patients Taught Me, by Gregory E. Smith MD
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And A Little Child Shall Lead Them
Funny how the world and its many events can stimulate our brains to recall things. When I initially wrote this column it was the seventy-fifth anniversary of D-Day, at that time the largest planned, multi-nation amphibious assault on an enemy defensive line in the history of warfare. I had also been reading about global warming,…
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The View From the Other Chair
Every once in a great while, a story about an encounter will come back to me. Something that happened today may trigger something from many years ago. This is one of the main reasons I decided to embark on a journey of telling some of the stories about what my patients have taught me over…
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Inside a Fourteen Year Old’s Brain
I don’t care what they think about it. She is the only girl for me. I love her with all my heart. I feel things for her that I’ve never felt for anybody before. I love her. I love her. I love her. I hate her. How could she do this to me? She can’t…
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A Bridge Too Far
She was one of my first long term, supervised psychotherapy cases during the second year of my psychiatric residency. She was young, but still a year or two older than her inexperienced, wet behind the ears therapist, and I use that term very loosely. I was to see her once a week, and ever other…