By Inna Rozentsvit I would like it to be thought that I had listened carefully to what patients and others have told me, that I’ve tried to imagine what it was like for them, and that I tried to convey this. And to use a biblical term, the feeling, ‘he bore witness.’ — (Oliver Sacks… (read more)

by Inna Rozentsvit One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. ― Sigmund Freud A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery So next time you’re faced with something that’s unexpected, unwanted and uncertain, consider that it just may be a… (read more)

by Sandra Indig and Inna Rozentsvit There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists. – E. Gombrich We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. – Anais Nin The “beholder’s share” (originally “beholder’s involvement”) concept was developed by art historian Alois Riegl, and his great disciples… (read more)

Neuroscience essay—published in NAAP News (Fall 2013 issue): by Inna Rozentsvit “The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.” (Mahatma Gandhi) When Noam Chomsky said, “See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence,” was he correct?  Is… (read more)

Neuroscience essay—published in NAAP News (Spring 2013): by Inna Rozentsvit “Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You’re going to trip over that for a good part of your… (read more)

Neuroscience essay—published in NAAP News (Winter 2012 issue): by Inna Rozentsvit If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired… (read more)

Neuroscience essay—published in NAAP News (Fall 2012 issue): by Inna Rozentsvit “…in its’ arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.” (J.K. Rowling) “Let us treat men and women well;  Treat them as if they were real; Perhaps they are.” (Ralph Waldo… (read more)

Neuroscience essay—published in NAAP News (Summer 2012 issue): by Inna Rozentsvit “The true meaning of life, Wesley, is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” (Nelson Henderson) “One day …Bob May gave me some advice: ‘You never lose for being too generous’. I was impressed because Bob is a winner.”… (read more)

Neuroscience essay—published in NAAP News (Fall 2011 issue): by Inna Rozentsvit “… (G)iving liberates the soul of the giver.” Maya Angelou “Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.” Khalil Gibran “Any act that I do for myself will… (read more)

Neurobiology: How It Relates to Psychoanalysis and to Our Sense of Being a Human Neuroscience essay—published in NAAP News (Summer 2011 issue): “The Astonishing Hypothesis is that ‘You’, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of vast… (read more)