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My account about the failure to solve homelessness (in NYC) Shutterstock An essay by Dr. Lloyd Sederer My wife and I were at an elegant dinner party on the upper west side of Manhattan on a cold, clear wintry Saturday night. The conversation shifted to the homeless men sleeping on the steps of a nearby church. It was no surprise since our hosts and others there knew we both worked to improve the lot of the homeless in NYC. My wife through her work with supported housing and

A film review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer Awarded for Direction, Rashad Frett, US Drama, Sundance Film Festival, 2025 ......................................................................................................... RICKY is the fictional story of a young black man in America, the northeast, not the south. Phillip Roth wrote, “... fiction is the closest thing we have to the truth". Convicted of armed auto theft at age 15, Ricky was sentenced as an adult to what would last 15

An essay by Lloyd I Sederer MD UFOs, the Unidentified Flying Objects in our skies are often reported by terrestrials (us) as appearing like “saucers”. Their speeds silently break the sound barrier, and their acrobatics defy the laws of physics. Accurate descriptions of pilots and engineers elude “ufologists” because of their heavenly distance and velocity. Too bad what could presumably be their informative earthen corpses are rapidly and surreptitiously removed by government

A film review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer Source: Amazon Prime Anyone, child or adult, who watches Disney won’t be surprised that sheep (among many other four-legged animals) can be charming – and talk! But until today, did you know that sheep have achieved mastery as sleuths, among the likes of the droll Sherlock Holmes? Or Inspector Clouseau, famed for his pursuit of The Pink Panther? It took the murder of a beloved man, George Hardy (Hugh Jackman), the modest, kindly shepherd of

An essay by Dr. Lloyd Sederer Shutterstock Intention is not meant to be confused with “intending”, with its wish-washy power of deliberate action. “Intention”, has an aim, a commitment, to do (or say) something, good or bad, of value or useless, clear or vague, now or later, and so forth. Noetics is the study and dawning science of consciousness (www.ions.org). Few, I suspect, knew the term until Dan Brown, the best-selling author, popularized it in his latest book, (The Secr

Some stories are timeless... Comments by Lloyd I Sederer MD How could a cell have given life, eons ago, to the vast variety of creatures inhabiting our air, sea, land, and bodies? A cell that, with time, happened to spawn we homo sapiens, capable of communication, creativity, and consciousnesses. That has, when we pause to reflect leave us breathless? Enter Lewis Thomas... Who was Lewis Thomas, MD? He was President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and formerly

Foreword – By Lloyd I Sederer MD Why do we need yet another book on addiction? The groundbreaking research by Harvey Milkman and Wiliam Frosch (1973), more than half a century ago, “On the Preferential Abuse of Heroin and Amphetamine,” has had a profound influence on the field. They demonstrated distinct personality types underlying drug preference. Simply stated, the drug of choice is harmonious with the user’s characteristic style of coping with stress. Shortly after publ

A novel by Laura Knoy Reviewed by Dr. Lloyd Sederer For 25 years Laura Knoy was “the voice of New Hampshire” as a brilliant NPR radio host. Putting her microphone aside, Laura now returns to us in the arresting voice of her first novel, The Shopkeeper of Alsace. We enter the story in 1915, as the boots of Russian soldiers enter a small town in Poland to prosecute their war against Germany. History has a lengthy record, continuing to today, of countries living by the credo of