A forthcoming work from Limpid Press

What happens when relief becomes easier than feeling?

NUMB examines how modern systems turn emotional withdrawal from a private response into a shared condition.

Forthcoming

NUMB

Why Nothing Interrupts You Anymore

Numbness did not spread because people became weak. It spread because it worked.

Across medicine, technology, work, politics, and belonging, modern life offers countless ways to soften discomfort while quietly diminishing our capacity to feel, judge, and act.

NUMB traces this condition beyond individual psychology. It asks what happens when relief becomes infrastructure, distraction becomes identity, and systems learn to profit from detachment.

Publication information Coming soon

“The cost of not feeling is not paid in ideology or policy, but in flesh.”
— NUMB

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Limpid Press

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Limpid Press is an independent imprint devoted to thoughtful works that examine culture, power, meaning, and the inner life. Its publications favor intellectual seriousness, lucid language, and questions that remain with the reader after the final page.

The author

A. Katz

A. Katz is a former cognitive-behavioral clinical psychologist. He earned a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from the University of North Florida and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology, with honors, from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

His perspective has also been shaped by international travel, business and product development, painting, and a sustained interest in global political affairs. He lives in Loveland, Colorado.

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