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The Beatles’s Song “Rain” as Melancholy Metaphor

by Jeffrey Rubin, PhD

Welcome to From Insults to Respect.  In today’s world, if you are experiencing melancholy or depression, the pharmaceutical industry very much wants to sell you on the idea that you have an abnormal condition that is deemed an illness. You would think with the popularity of the blues type of music, periods of bluesy feelings would be viewed as normal as trees in a forest;…

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Thoughts On The Beatles Song “Help”

by Jeffrey Rubin, PhD

Welcome to From Insults To Respect. Today we take a look at the experience of asking for help, which can be hard for some of us.  As we do so, we’ll be utilizing the tremendously popular Beatles song, “Help” in order to bring to light some aspects of the experience in an entertaining manner. The song was released as a single in the summer of 1965…

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