River Angel: Therapy and Loss in the Early Days of AIDS

• By: Julie List, LCSW JBFCS
• July 1st, 2012
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It’s been 17 years since Keith Braverman* washed down a bottle of valium with a fifth of vodka, left his wallet and keys on his kitchen table, and jumped into the Hudson River. Keith wrote one suicide note, and it was addressed to me. He attached a postcard to the note: the two embracing angels...

Through a Glass Darkly: Poverty and Mental Health in The Bronx

• By: Julie List, LCSW JBFCS
• October 1st, 2010
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Each day I take a journey to the northern tip of our city, to the Northeast Bronx, where I am the director of an outpatient mental health clinic. I am a visitor from another country, Manhattan, and I inhabit this world and see it through the eyes of a white, middle-class outsider. As the 5 train...