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Date: May 9, 2013
“I like people around me. It's like a security blanket” one patient was fond of saying to Dr. Knafo. Another, by contrast, explaining why he prefers animals to humans, tells Dr. Knafo bluntly, that it is because “dogs don't ask me personal questions.” Dr. Knafo, author of multiple books and articles, as well as Professor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at Long Island University, CW Post Campus and Faculty and Supervisor at NYU's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, presented nuanced case material of two patients who appear entirely dissimilar from each other yet are found to struggle from conflicts that are much the same. One patient eschews solitude, and the other interpersonal contact. Both have strong yearnings for connection and cavernous fears of loss based in historical trauma.