In “The Sullivanians,” Alexander Stille recalls the heyday of an experiment in communal living that blurred the boundaries between therapists, patients and lovers. By Alexandra Jacobs When you ...

At a moment when many are finding the promised rewards of American life still elusive, when the cost of living in most cities has hit historic levels, when communities are split by deep political and ...

There were a number of things that might have attracted a person to the Sullivan Institute, the maverick psychoanalytic practice and cult that flourished on the Upper West Side from 1957 until its ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. There’s a joke about the Upper West Side—the neighborhood that was once ...

The era of New York City as a municipal ruin — a period stretching from the late 1960s to the early 1980s — has remained a source of fascination in American culture for so long that it seems to be ...

When Kaethe Cherney was 19, her older brother, Chris, told her that their mother had tried to kill her as a baby. “You had a bad attack of croup but she fell asleep [on purpose],” he said. “She wanted ...

I am an avid consumer of these stories; I firmly share America’s fascination. I have often thought that therapy stories hold interest because they invite us into intimacy with other humans that we don ...

Alexander Stille’s The Sullivanians documents the sordid history and fascinating intellectual roots of a psychotherapy group that proposed a utopian alternative to conventional family life. Families ...

The Sullivanians were a community made up entirely of therapists and their patients, a group that espoused the value of analysis, communal living, and non-monogamy. Saul Newton wanted to be a good ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There's a joke about the Upper West Side—the neighborhood that was once home to the philosopher Hannah ...