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Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It.

To Live Is an Act of Courage

To Live Is an Act of Courage

The crisis of suicide among our soldiers and veterans must end. Here’s how we can stop it

by Jennifer Michael Hecht | Thursday, September 05, 2013
To Flee or Not to Flee

To Flee or Not to Flee

The stigma of failed courage

by Jennifer Michael Hecht | Wednesday, December 10, 2014
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Words and Music

Two ways of thinking about what our brains can do

by Jennifer Michael Hecht | Saturday, September 01, 2007

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A Mother’s Secret

by Werner Gundersheimer

In this 2011 essay, Werner Gundersheimer remembers his mother’s efforts to preserve a version of his childhood free of the Holocaust’s painful scars. “We all know that memory is selective, and that the mind blots out what it can’t bear to retain,” he writes. “For [Mom], the past was always present, and the only way to keep it at bay was to steer clear of it.”

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