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Esther Israel
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Interception
by Esther Israel April 16, 2023 The father with his son in the back seat turns his Toyota Tacoma east into my northbound body. I am hit...
Esther Israel
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On Gossip and Idiom
by Esther Israel A client came unbidden to give me dirt on a peer. They told me with a grin, “The ears have walls. Yeah. I know. You told...
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The State of Utah Needs a Judiciary Overhaul
By Esther Israel February 6, 2022 I read an Op-Ed article in the Salt Lake Tribune by Judith Pinborough-Zimmerman and Ronald Mortensen...
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The Personal Is Political Poetry
Below is a sampling of poems I've written between 2008-2019. In 2008, I took a summer intensive course on Feminist Multicultural Therapy...
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The Venus Fly Trap Agency and their Jewish Insect Problem
Written by Esther Israel in August 2021 After experiencing coordinated and intentional discrimination on the job at The Venus Fly Trap...
Esther Israel
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Something is Rotten in the State of Utah
Written by Esther Israel in August 2021 In 2015, I filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the University of Utah and five local...
Esther Israel
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People Can Change Yet Society Remains Unforgiving
Esther Israel writes (July 2021) about a job held in the time frame of summer 2014 to fall 2015 In the winter of 2012, I obtained an...
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Misalignments in the Law, Nonprofit Practice and the Ethics of Mental Health Care
It is an unfortunate reality that many so called nonprofit mental health agencies place their bottom lines above competent care.
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When The Present Is Tense
Sometimes people elect to go to talk therapy and make disclosures of fresh wounds, gripes and misgivings in the hopes of closure by the end
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PTSD Politics
I originally titled the article, "I Wrote This For My Own Good" and submitted it for publication with the Trauma Informed Care Network...
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My Years at Utah State Hospital
In the summer of 2011, while I was living in Brooklyn, New York, the Assistant Clinical Director at Utah State Hospital (USH) inquired about
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A Tale of Two Utah Mental Health Organizations
Esther Israel Compiled in July 2021 I was a newsletter contributor and active member, and later a newsletter editor for the Utah...
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I Published and I Perished
Written by Esther Israel in August 2021 Scholarly works were copyrighted © in 2006 and 2008 by Esther Israel when I submitted them for...
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