In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for a post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychoanalytic psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton would blossom into a world-famous poet, best known for her "confessional" poems dealing with personal subjects not often represented in poetry at that time: mental illness, depression, suicide, sex, abortion, women's bodies, and the ordinary lives of mothers and housewives. Orne audiotaped the last three years of her therapy to facilitate her ability to remember their sessions....
In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for a post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychoanalytic psychi...
