Contributed by Fred Wistow
The Great Appreciator
Just One of the Many Rich SimonsSometimes the act of describing something vague or giving it a name dispels the vagueness and makes it come alive. “Naming something” was probably Rich’s... Read more
Turns in the Road
Highlights from the Networker JourneyOut of all the hundreds and hundreds of articles that have appeared in the Networker over the past four decades, we’ve chosen a small sampling that captures... Read more
Caught in a Web
A World Where Life Is Always ElsewhereEvery day, every moment, we must wade through the flood of incoming alerts and emails urgently demanding our time and attention, all the while knowing that... Read more
Black Unlike Me
Some Uncomfortable Reflections on Growing Up WhiteAt a time when many are calling for a renewed national conversation about race, an aging, liberal, white New Yorker—who admits he’s never been a party to... Read more
Creatures of Habit
Do We Really Choose How We Live Our Lives?When routines and habits become as lifeless as the manner in which one brushes one’s teeth, when the choreography of one’s existence resembles a... Read more
Nothing Like Willy Loman?
A Classic Play Still Casts a Haunting SpellMore than 60 years after its Broadway debut, a classic play continues to cast a haunting spell. Read more
Chew Wisely
The Joy of Playing With Your FoodRemember as a kid being scrupulously taught that eating was a serious business that brooked no nonsense? A lifetime later, this author discovered that---as... Read more
Movie Magic
The Search for Transcendence in a Celluloid WorldOn the handful of channels that constituted the still-primitive medium that was television in the 1950s and early ’60s—before talk shows metastasized... Read more
Is there any place more filled with despair and dread than an emergency room in the middle of the night? Read more
Easy Money
Maybe Our Parents Had it Right All AlongWe're living through a breathtaking realignment of our consciousness about money, no longer lulled by the ever-sweeter melodies played by the Pied Piper of our... Read more
Has your memory become erratic, unreliable, fuzzy at the edges, or nowhere to be found, like those barely remembered dreams that wriggle out of your grasp in... Read more
The Facts of Life
Learning to Connect the DotsThis piece started out as a reportorial piece on sex therapy, but nontherapist Fred Wistow soon blew past that assignment to investigate the ways in which our... Read more
Fred Wistow
Fred Wistow is a former contributing editor to the Psychotherapy Networker and lives in New York City.