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SHONDA RHIMES
Coming Out The Other Side
Of Loneliness

March 17, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

In her Human Rights Campaign award speech on 3/14/15, Shonda Rhimes said that writing as a child saved her. I’m sure it did. Yet, I think her ability to create a world of people who served as placeholders until she could find her “people in the real world” is the most important thing. Shonda was …

AMERICAN CRIME
What’s Made Barb The Racist She Is?

March 14, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Racism is a symptom in American Crime – a troubling and destructive one, to be sure. But, like any symptom, it has its personal roots. As a psychoanalyst, my work is to find the roots of any symptom brought into my office. And, with the multi-storied American Crime unfolding each week, the roots of Matt’s …