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"Psychoanalysts must be patients for years before they can practice. The "talking cure"--the basis of all psychotherapy--is best explained from two perspectives: one patient lying on the couch and the other seated behind it. The author of this memoir wasboth. He candidly discusses his own analysis, describing his emotional misfires and their causes"--
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Joyce draws from his own career as a psychoanalyst to explain to people what seeing a psychoanalyst is like, to convince them that it is not a scary experience. Among his topics are why I became a psychoanalyst, whether a Catholic can do it, making a diagnosis, sex and sexuality, the history of you, transference, bad broken records, the royal road, herr professor doktor Sigmund Freud, sometimes we make mistakes, the safe haven, pissed off, ways to screw up kids, and a shrink's eye view. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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