Comments on: An Elegy for My Office From a Psychoanalyst Working Remotely https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/elegy-for-my-office/ Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:44:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Blair Casdin https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/elegy-for-my-office/#comment-25229 Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:44:50 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17500#comment-25229 Thank you, Vanessa. I really appreciate your comment. Short and sweet often works best. It all just kind of flowed out the first week of quarantine. And here we are in week 7! But, I am happy to report that someone is watering my plant!

]]> By: VANESSA JACKSON https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/elegy-for-my-office/#comment-25228 Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:58:12 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17500#comment-25228 Hi Blair, I appreciate how you always seem to present things in the simplest and most immediate terms, and with humor.

]]> By: Blair Casdin https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/elegy-for-my-office/#comment-25204 Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:45:29 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17500#comment-25204 Sue, I miss seeing you on 9th Street! I wonder if it’s the same guy…oh how we will rejoice when we can all return to our normal, though transformed, lives!

]]> By: Sue Bloland https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/elegy-for-my-office/#comment-25203 Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:38:59 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17500#comment-25203 Blair, Your piece evoked such nostalgia in me for my beloved office! Particularly since I share your office building and can visualize everything to which you refer — from the mailboxes, to the guy who kind of knows me but never says hello, to just walking up 9th Street — where I hear the blossoms are out as though the Mother Nature hasn’t noticed that anything is wrong with us humans!

How often have I wished on a rainy morning that I could skip the commute into the city and stay home for the day — something I will surely feel again when this odd moratorium is over — but I will have a whole different appreciation of how much that trip to my office, and being in the physical presence of my clients, nourishes and sustains me!

]]> By: Blair Casdin https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/elegy-for-my-office/#comment-25202 Mon, 30 Mar 2020 01:34:39 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17500#comment-25202 Thanks for your comment, Debby. I sent it to a friend who is not a therapist who said it was totally relatable as we are all missing the ordinary aspects of every day life. I will never get used to seeing faces only through a screen but I am grateful for it too. Here’s to hoping this doesn’t last too long and we can once again return to normalcy!

]]> By: Debby Worth https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/elegy-for-my-office/#comment-25201 Sun, 29 Mar 2020 23:43:16 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17500#comment-25201 Blair, I am in mourning for my office too! I never realized what a holding environment it was for ME until I couldn’t have it. My chair, which was my mother’s chair, now molded to my body, still envelopes me in hers as well, and is a source of comfort I never could articulate until now. My patients and I are struggling to find the right distance when using video – faces are too big, too close, too intrusive, not quite right. All the things you mention – the light, the noises, the incidental people on the street, in the lobby, in the coffee shop – are a real loss. Will it ever be the same again? I’m sure there are things we can gain from this experience, but it’s only right to honor the loss first.

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