At a moment when many are finding the promised rewards of American life still elusive, when the cost of living in most cities has hit historic levels, when communities are split by deep political and ...

In “The Sullivanians,” Alexander Stille recalls the heyday of an experiment in communal living that blurred the boundaries between therapists, patients and lovers. By Alexandra Jacobs When you ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. There’s a joke about the Upper West Side—the neighborhood that was once ...

There were a number of things that might have attracted a person to the Sullivan Institute, the maverick psychoanalytic practice and cult that flourished on the Upper West Side from 1957 until its ...

The postwar era saw many attempts to find new ways of thinking and living that avoided the dissatisfactions and interpersonal nightmares that often arose in more traditional structures. Since human ...

The era of New York City as a municipal ruin — a period stretching from the late 1960s to the early 1980s — has remained a source of fascination in American culture for so long that it seems to be ...

When Kaethe Cherney was 19, her older brother, Chris, told her that their mother had tried to kill her as a baby. “You had a bad attack of croup but she fell asleep [on purpose],” he said. “She wanted ...

Alexander Stille’s The Sullivanians documents the sordid history and fascinating intellectual roots of a psychotherapy group that proposed a utopian alternative to conventional family life. Families ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s a joke about the Upper West Side—the neighborhood that was once home to the philosopher Hannah ...