Herman Ira N MD

My years at Penn in the 70’s were steady regression from neurotic to borderline personality disorder with atypical depression.. I saw Ira Herman through student health every week in the Fall and Spring of my Senior year. I did not get better. I just got steadily worse.
I was never told his diagnosis of me, even though I repeatedly asked, because «labels don’t matter». I was never prescribed medication, even though I repeatedly asked for it. He did say in a session that if singing «All for the Best» to myself provided some relief, then to go ahead and sing. (It’s a song from from «Godspell».) At our last session, after I had been calling suicide prevention lines 2 to 5 times a day for two weeks or more, and after my daily routine included an hour or more crying on the can in public restrooms, and after the suicide lines had contacted the Depression research labs to follow up, Ira Herman told me he was going to be on vacation for the next month. He gave me no follow up, no advice, nothing at all. I provided him a healthy learning experience and fortunately my suicide attempt was NOT successful.
That was 36 years ago. 18 years ago, Psychiatrist interns from Hahnemann who I met socially told me that Dr. Herman continued to mistreat people as I had been mistreated.