Most accounts of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have been written by therapists, from a professional point of view.
In this book the published stories of several analysands--those receiving analysis--over 100 years have been collected for purposes of comparison; some have been written by therapists in training, but others are by patients not involved in the profession. A number are complaints about malpractice, or of failures to make a difference to their condition, and a common factor in most has been a discordant agenda between analyst and analysand. Where analysands have felt...
Most accounts of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have been written by therapists, from a professional point of view.
Cuthbert Barnstable, an establishment type, learns he has only 18 months to live. At first he only tells his friend, Harry. But hes constantly tempted to divulge his secret and always disappointed by the reaction of his loved ones. Then he discovers what lifes all about and his family learns to live with an amateur bull fighter/nascent painter/master cook. He becomes a combination free spirit and hippie to the chagrin of his son and daughter in law whos been the resident free spirits. Cuthbert, wishing his son would take over the business, had talked them into becoming more "establishment."...
Cuthbert Barnstable, an establishment type, learns he has only 18 months to live. At first he only tells his friend, Harry. But hes constantly tempted...
