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Foundering

Bloomberg and Wondery Present: The Shrink Next Door

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Bloomberg

Business, Tech News, Technology, News

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Marty Markowitz had his share of problems. His parents had recently died. He had troubles at work. A failing relationship. He needed someone to help him through this rough patch in his life. So he decided to get some professional help from a psychiatrist. What he did not count on, was what happened in his life over the next twenty-nine years. This is a story about power, control, and turning to the wrong person for help. Listen now at bloomberg.com/shrinknextdoor

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0:00.0

When you get your news from Bloomberg, you don't just get the story. You get the story behind the story.

0:07.0

How your Evie's battery may not be as green as it seems.

0:11.0

Why a decrease in global birth rates could send countries scrambling to increase immigration.

0:16.2

You get context.

0:17.6

And context changes how you see things, how you change things, because context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg

0:24.6

dot com to get context.

0:29.4

Psychiatrists see us in our most vulnerable moments.

0:34.0

All of our problems and disfunctions laid bare to a stranger.

0:38.0

We hope that they keep our secrets and help us solve our problems.

0:41.0

We place our inherent trust in them. But what if they use that

0:44.7

knowledge against us for their own benefit? In a brand new podcast from

0:49.2

Wondery and Bloomberg, The Shrink Next Door, host Joe'Sara takes you deep into what it looks like when a psychiatrist becomes something much more.

0:58.0

You'll hear of extravagant parties attended by movie stars, a lavish home in the Hamptons, and the man at the center of it all.

1:06.7

You're about to hear a preview of The Shrink Next Door, in which you'll meet host Joe Nocera

1:12.2

and hear about a relationship that would go on to affect two people's lives for 29 years.

1:18.0

While you're listening, go subscribe to the Shrink Next Door on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening now.

1:24.4

There's also a link in the episode notes that will take you there.

1:27.6

By any measure, Marty Markowitz was a success. He had an Ivy League diploma, a law degree, his own business and plenty of money.

1:43.0

But when he hit 38 he found himself feeling seriously overwhelmed.

1:48.0

His rabbi recommended a therapist he knew who had an office on Manhattan's East Side.

1:55.0

I go into his office, which was, you know, a modestly furnished office with a desk and a chair and a couch.

2:03.0

The therapist's name was Dr. Isaac Hirschkoff,

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