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Philip S. Holzman
A stirring personal memoir that will leave no reader unmoved… Told in graceful prose, the story mixes the tragic with the comic and absurd in such a way that produces art… An affecting human document that takes the reader, perhaps unwillingly, because it is an "in-your-face" story, beyond the shock of un-recognition of this renowned, erudite, and culture psychologist, to the understanding of the universal and complex nature of human attachments… Brown, in his self-exposure may have written his most penetrating psychological study in this depiction of the human condition in late life.—(Philip S. Holzman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Harvard University)
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Against My Better Judgment: An Intimate Memoir of an Eminent Gay Psychologist is an extraordinary and moving account of the life of a gay man in his late 60s after he loses his companion of 40 years to cancer. A leading professor of psychology at Harvard University, Roger Brown bravely comes forth with his compelling story of grief, loneliness, and a relentless search for intimacy, healing, and self-acceptance. Readers gain insight into a stage of life experienced by gay men of which little is written or spoken ...