In her latest book, \”The Thief of Happiness: The Story of an Extraordinary Psychotherapy,\” Bonnie Friedman sorts through the complex, confusing, ambivalent relationship between therapist and patient by way of her own psychotherapy, revealing the seductive \”thief\” to be Friedman\’s trusted doctor, a fact that the reader realizes immediately, but that takes the author years to understand.
The reason I am limping is because of a small man named Shen Hsu. That\’s not entirely accurate. I went to see Hsu because I was limping. He performed a variety of ancient Chinese medical practices on me, including acupuncture and a form of massage that could easily be mistaken for torture. I\’m still limping. Now I\’m limping a little differently, on what used to be my good side.
At 78, Dario Gabbai, a Sephardic Jew and one of very few sonderkommandos still alive, says he continues to struggle with feelings of guilt and degradation.
Ethan Gura doesn\’t remember his sister. Still, he cannot forgether. He can\’t forget that Rebecca Alexandra Gura died in 1991 after afour and a half year battle with leukemia. She was then six yearsold. He was three.
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