Ben Blau is the reluctant chair of the philosophy department of the Lola Dees Institute, surrounded by a bestiary of academic innocents and opportunists. His wife, Ruth—a writer whose early success ne
A woman who has spent time institutionalized for mental illness offers a memoir of her struggle for sanity, her experiences with psychotherapy, and her subsequent disavowel of it.
The sexual politics of a faculty wives dinner. The psychological gamesmanship of an inappropriate therapist. The emotional minefield of an extended family wedding . . . ?Whatever the subject, Emily Fo
