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The Shrink Next Door
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🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Veteran journalist Joe Nocera’s neighbor in the Hamptons was a therapist named Ike. Ike counted celebrities and Manhattan elites as his patients. He’d host star-studded parties at his eccentric vacation house. But one summer, Joe discovered that Ike was gone and everything he’d thought he’d known about his neighbor -- and the house next door -- was wrong. From Wondery, the company behind Dirty John and Dr. Death, and Bloomberg, “The Shrink Next Door” is a story about power, control and turning to the wrong person for help for three decades. Written and hosted by Joe Nocera, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.
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| 0:00.0 | Marty Markowitz had his share of problems. Troubles at work, a failing relationship. |
| 0:06.0 | His parents had recently died. And so, Marty decided to get some professional help. |
| 0:12.0 | In the summer of 1981, he walked into the office of a |
| 0:16.5 | psychiatrist named Ike Hirschkov. I go into his office and we looked at each other and he said okay why are you here |
| 0:26.7 | Marty liked Ike and Ike well he seemed to see something in Marty at the end of the first session, he said, |
| 0:33.8 | I'm going to take you on as a patient. |
| 0:35.8 | And he says, you know, I don't do that with everybody. |
| 0:38.2 | But this therapist wasn't like other therapists. |
| 0:41.6 | He cut me off from everybody. |
| 0:43.4 | So the only person I could turn to was Dr. Ike. |
| 0:48.5 | And from the moment Marty started seeing him, |
| 0:51.0 | he began to change. |
| 0:52.3 | We didn't see him. I mean he lived around the corner and like |
| 0:54.4 | suddenly we didn't go there anymore. Like he wasn't coming over anymore. It's as if somebody died. |
| 0:59.1 | It was obvious. It was obvious that I had the power and Marty followed the rules. |
| 1:05.0 | If Marty Markowitz had known what he was walking into when he first visited that office, |
| 1:10.0 | he probably would have walked right out the door and never come back. |
| 1:15.0 | Yes, hello? |
| 1:16.0 | Hi, I'm trying to reach Ike Hirschkov. |
| 1:18.0 | Yes, speaking. |
| 1:20.0 | Hi, Dr Hirschkov, I'm a producer working for Wundery in Bloomberg Media and I've been trying to get in touch with you because I've been talking to Marty Markowitz. |
| 1:29.0 | This is a story about power, control, and turning to the wrong person for help for more than 29 years. |
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