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Monday, May 5, 2008 10:10AM
 
"In Treatment"
Posted By: Leora Skolkin-Smith

Tags: treatment, therapy, Yael Hedaya, Arnon Grunberg
 
 I had told my husband last night I couldn’t write about the interview called “In Treatment”. I attended this interview between Israeli writer, Yael Hedaya, and writer, Arnon Grunberg, at the Mercantile Library on Friday afternoon. Many reasons went into why I couldn’t write about it, and yet those very reasons are what compel me now, despite myself to sit down and write about it after all. I was above all worried and self-protective I guess. But then this morning I asked myself: Am I running scared by not responding  to this panel, maybe? Afraid of what might come back at me if I really opened up about my own feelings about therapy? But these issues are important to me, I’m finishing a novel right...
 
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