Abraham Nussbaum

Physician, Teacher, Writer


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    Trouble No More

    As Muddy sang, “I know you’re coming back home,” and my troubles will come to an end…. eventually.

  • Voices In The Evening, Natalia Ginzburg

    Voices In The Evening, Natalia Ginzburg

    The book opens after a visit to the doctor and ends, a year later, with a question about medications. In between, Ginzburg offers a portrait of hypochondria as a manifestation of status anxiety. She writes short and spare, like Chekhov, while sounding out how thoughts take bodily shapes. “I told you…

  • Struggle is Real

    Struggle is Real

    They say the first cut is the deepest, because the deep cuts from childhood and trauma underlie every struggle.