https://drsusanblock.com Dr. Susan Block's Journal Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:43:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://drsusanblock.com/max-collage-stroke-death https://drsusanblock.com/max-collage-stroke-death#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:39:05 +0000 https://drsusanblock.com/?p=175832 by Dr. Susan Block. Now tumbling down the hill of time in an avalanche of emotion is the first anniversary of Max’s death. It’s been a year of immeasurable loss, bottomless grief, sleepless nights, vivid memories, strange and somewhat comforting rituals – ashes to ashes, stroke to smoke – Bonoboville gatherings and art therapy since […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/max-collage-stroke-death/feed 22 https://drsusanblock.com/max-lobkowicz-filangieri-obituary https://drsusanblock.com/max-lobkowicz-filangieri-obituary#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2025 04:31:04 +0000 https://drsusanblock.com/?p=172629 by Dr. Susan Block. It is with deep love, sadness, reverence – and a dash of irreverence – that I announce the passing of Pr. Maximillian Rudolph Leblovic Lobkowicz di Filangieri, aka Captain Max, aka Mickey, aka David Rossi, aka Vivienne Hammer, aka MaxArtCore, aka Xam Paris, aka Max. Max was a truly great man, […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/max-lobkowicz-filangieri-obituary/feed 69 https://drsusanblock.com/active-radio-5 https://drsusanblock.com/active-radio-5#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:36:56 +0000 https://drsusanblock.com/?p=158612 April 16, 2025, LOS ANGELES — American sexologist Dr. Susan Block delivered her fifth annual 2025 State of the Sexual Union address – a sex-positive, greed-negative, pro-bonobo “rebuttal” to U.S. President Donald Trump’s pseudo-strongman State of the Union 2025 and his pro-wrestling circus-style lurch toward authoritarian repression and recession – broadcast live 4.5.25 on Active […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/active-radio-5/feed 6 https://drsusanblock.com/33rd-wedding-anniversary https://drsusanblock.com/33rd-wedding-anniversary#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:49:10 +0000 https://drsusanblock.com/?p=158928 by Dr. Susan Block. It’s our 33rd Wedding Anniversary! Yes indeed, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners all around the world and here at home… One sunny Spring Sunday in Philadelphia, way back on April 12, 1992, we got married, and 33 years later – we’re still married.  #GoBonobos for us! Woohoo! The Goal is […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/33rd-wedding-anniversary/feed 24 https://drsusanblock.com/go-bonobos-2025 https://drsusanblock.com/go-bonobos-2025#comments Wed, 01 Jan 2025 21:01:29 +0000 https://drsusanblock.com/?p=113476     by Dr. Susan Block. Happy Slappy Mother-Effing 2025. Will anyone here get out alive? I’ll take my chances… 2024 having been such a bust (and not the good kind) of a year, an awful spin cycle of sorrow and fear, un-bonobo neopuritanism, Artificial Ignorance censoring and killing us, sadistic injustice, raging extortion, medical […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/go-bonobos-2025/feed 19 https://drsusanblock.com/birthday-healing https://drsusanblock.com/birthday-healing#comments Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:45:34 +0000 https://drsusanblock.com/?p=111941   by Dr. Susan Block.   Capt’n Max had a stroke. I wish it could say that’s a joke. Or the good kind of stroke – a stroke of luck, a soft caress, a pleasure stroke. But no, unfortunately, Max had a stroke of seismic – or “ischemic” – pain… which is, in a way, a very […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/birthday-healing/feed 42