This section of our website is a living room for more personal material — even humor. We talk about Paul's ideas directly, yes, but we also show by example that we are not merely stuffy ivory-tower cap and gown airheads but real, living human beings trying to get it right. We hope to show that, as Paul's students, we are actually enlightened, rather than merely "as sick as everybody else but more chatty about it" — which is what much of the internet is about (especially digital pubcrawls like Facebook, or sports bars like Twitter where you get to cheer and jeer your favorite atheletes and hope somebody across the room agrees with you).

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"I came to the writings of Paul Rosenfels after years of teaching literature. My background was not in psychology or science. I encountered his thought through coming to the Ninth Street Center in 1990. Immediately I did so, I felt the inspiration that comes from one who expresses a prophetic insight into human relationships, social progress and my own potential for growth."

"When I noticed that Paul's works were exactly what I've been looking for ever since I got my first library card in '79, I was a bit peeved. If I'd had access to these books when I was 7, I would have learnt them by heart and never read anything else, except for pleasure."

"'You have an excellent opportunity to use your homosexuality,' Dean Hannotte counseled me one weekday evening in April 1973 as we talked in a cozy East Village apartment, which looked more like a library than a residence. It even sported a table chess set with playable, Staunton pieces. Dean then reassured me that getting older was nothing to worry about; after all, his own lover, psychotherapist Paul Rosenfels, was 35 years his senior. I remember asking him about diseases, whether the lifestyle was 'unhealthy', and he said no, because to 'grow', I would eventually want to stay with one partner for life. That half-hour session with Dean provided me with my first credible, encouraging information about my recently discovered community, beyond the world of fern and leather bars, and tacky GAA dances at the Wooster Street 'Firehouse'."

"I'm a social worker who has been a Ninth Street Center member since 1985 and who appreciates many of Paul Rosenfels' ideas as most useful in helping others formulate and make sense of their problems. I see psychology at its best as an instrument for personal and societal development."

"Originally I came to Paul's work in desperation. In a Village bookshop I spotted . I picked it up, read the first few pages and there in those pages of Paul's work I was born, a birth marked with a rage and humiliation. Why had no one — no friend, doctor, teacher nor priest — simply said this is why we are?"

"My first encounter with Paul Rosenfels' ideas was at a meeting-place that he and his students had set up for informal discussions. The day I arrived, they were talking about how career successes didn't fulfill them, and how they'd had to decide to take the importance out of such things and devote themselves to what was really important. I'd just come off a series of successes as a political activist, and I knew just what they meant: I didn't feel fulfilled. So I thought I might have encountered a place where I could learn something."

"The concepts of submissive and dominant temperaments seems to be fairly widely recognized anecdotally to have something to do with sexual relationships, and Paul Rosenfels in particular seems to have been found a particular following the Gay community. However, it seems submission/dominance has gotten very little attention in any research literature that we have found. We find this puzzling because the concept of submission/dominance is much more general than sexual relationships or personality types, and seems to be very valuable for understanding the emotional foundations of cooperative social relationships in general." Susan Carol Rosenbluth is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Susan can be reached at .