The Intersections of Life

Grief

Conversations With Patients Who Have Died

Robert Kertzner M.D. on June 6, 2024

Personal Perspective: The experience of losing psychotherapy patients to medical illness can prompt imagined conversations to honor and remember their lives.

Personal Perspective: The experience of losing psychotherapy patients to medical illness can prompt imagined conversations to honor and remember their lives.

Ethics and Morality

How to Receive Gifts as a Psychotherapist

Robert Kertzner M.D. on September 29, 2023

A Personal Perspective: A psychotherapist reflects on gifts accepted, declined, and belatedly appreciated, in one case after four decades.

A Personal Perspective: A psychotherapist reflects on gifts accepted, declined, and belatedly appreciated, in one case after four decades.

Grief

Grief Comes Home to the Psychotherapist

Robert Kertzner M.D. on January 6, 2023

A Personal Perspective: Dying to tell you what I learned as a bereaved psychotherapist.

A Personal Perspective: Dying to tell you what I learned as a bereaved psychotherapist.

Loneliness

Alternative Facts in the Psychotherapy Office

Robert Kertzner M.D. on April 4, 2021

Psychotherapy during a time of alternative facts.

Psychotherapy during a time of alternative facts.

Persuasion

Returning to the Office in the Midst of the COVID Pandemic

Robert Kertzner M.D. on November 10, 2020

A return to my office led to some unexpected realizations about what is essential and pleasurable about the practice of psychotherapy.

A return to my office led to some unexpected realizations about what is essential and pleasurable about the practice of psychotherapy.