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The Empathy Paradox: What #MeToo Misses

What even a post-Weinstein conversation is not saying about sexual assault

Puppeteering and Electioneering

A look back on the 2021 campaign

Missing in Action

When people turn their backs on public office

Dr. Clare Pain

Clare Pain is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and director of the Psychological Trauma Program at Mount Sinai Hospital.

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Dr. Clare Pain

Unspeakable Terror

A brave victim charts her 20-year course of healing November 2014
On Wednesday, August 1, 1990, a 22-year-old Cana­dian student named Karyn Freedman arrived in Paris and made her way with her boyfriend, Stream, to an apartment on Boulevard Masséna. The apartment was rented by Stream’s elderly Bard College professor and mentor Édouard Roditi, who had invited the couple to stay for part of the summer to explore…