Significant Moments: The Prolific Letter Writer

And those letters, . . .
Raja Ghoshal, Ups and Downs of Love.
Yes!
Emile Zola, J’accuse . . . !
Back to the letters.
Irvin D. Yalom, Love’s Executioner.
Freud, a prolific letter writer, . . .
Joseph Reppen, Memory and Archives: A London Conference.
. . . corresponded almost daily. He . . .
Irvin D. Yalom, Love’s Executioner.
. . . answered every letter he received, generally within twenty-four hours, and wrote upward of 35,000 letters.
Joseph Reppen, Memory and Archives: A London Conference.
I suspected that . . .
Irvin D. Yalom, Love’s Executioner.
. . . for Freud writing was a vital necessity, a sort of writing cure for lifting depression. Freud once wrote that he had to recuperate from psychoanalysis by writing.
Joseph Reppen, Memory and Archives: A London Conference.
His published work comprises some two million words—twice as much as that of Shakespeare’s output.
E. James Lieberman, Acts of Will.


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February 22, 1999

Mr. James R. Granger, Jr.
Executive Director
Government of the District of Columbia
Board of Medicine
Dept. of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs
Occupational and Professional Licensing Administration
614 H Street N.W., Room #108
Washington, D.C. 20001

Re: Mr. Gary Freedman: your letter of January 6, 1999

Dear Mr. Granger:

[redacted]

Subsequently, he has settled down into his usual lifestyle which includes prolific letter writing. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance to you.

Sincerely,

Albert H. Taub, M.D.
Faculty Member
Department of Psychiatry
Residency Training Program
St. Elizabeths/CMHS

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