Marty Markowitz had his share of
problems a struggling business a failing
relationship his parents had recently
died and so Marty decided to get some
professional help in the summer of 1981
he walked into the office of a
psychiatrist named Ike Hirsch cough by
going to his office and we looked at
each other and he said okay why are you
here
Marty liked Ike and Ike well he seemed
to see something in Marty at the end of
the first session he said I'm gonna take
you on as a patient and he says you know
I don't do that with everybody but this
therapist wasn't like other therapists
he cut me off from everybody so the only
person I could turn to was dr. Ike and
from the moment Marty started seeing him
he began to change we didn't see him I
mean lived around the corner and like
suddenly we didn't go there anymore like
he wasn't coming over anymore it's as if
somebody died it was obvious it was
obvious that Ike had the power and Marty
followed the rules if Marty Markowitz
had known what he was walking into when
he first visited that office he probably
would have walked right out the door and
never come back
yes what up hi I'm trying to reach Ike
hirschkop I'm speaking hi dr. Hirsch
Gotham I'm a producer working for Wonder
E in Bloomberg I've been trying to get
in touch with you because I've been
talking to Marty Markowitz this is a
story about power control and turning to
the wrong person for help for more than
29 years when I constructed me to buy
this house
I told me no you can't use the master
bedroom you're gonna stay in the back
section of the house oh I'm trying to
think when it really got nuts
it really got crazy because the parties
were at their height and business was
building it was like almost a
Fantasyland in fact there's a good word
it was like working in Fantasyland
Thomas
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