Susan S. Levine

A practicing psychoanalyst and faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Susan S. Levine has published three books in her field: Useful Servants (Jason Aronson, 1996); Loving Psychoanalysis (Jason Aronson, 2009)—a finalist for the Gradiva Award for Best Clinical Book—; and Dignity Matters (Routledge, 2018). Her contribution to the latter volume, for which she served as editor, originally appeared in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis as “Means and ends in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, or Kant you see?” She has taught classes in clinical case writing for many years and has served on editorial boards of professional journals. Her first Sandra Krasnapol story, “Seeing Red,” was published in Constellations: a Journal of Poetry and Fiction (2020), the second, “Certifiable,” by International Psychotherapy Institute EBooks (2022), the third, “Taking Leave,” by the White Wall Review, and the fourth, “Break,” by The MacGuffin. A fifth, “Dignity,” has recently been accepted by Jewish Fiction .net.

Corona Choreography

A large dispenser of no-name hand sanitizer should not be the first object patients see as they open the door bearing the engraved brass plaque SANDRA R. KRASNAPOL, PH.D. So, Sandra had positioned the bottle behind the lamp on the small bookshelf in the vestibule. Immediately visible, yes, but an offer rather than an outright command. She expected the alteration would not go unnoticed by her patients—and it didn’t.