Psychoanalyst


Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story
Problems Of Mysticism And Its Symbolism
The Naked Face
Gretel and the Dark
The Mandarins
Janet Malcolm
The therapy of psychoanalysis attempts to restore to the neurotic patient the freedom to be uninteresting that he lost somewhere along the way. It proposes to undermine the novelistic structures on which he has constructed his existence, and to destroy the web of elaborate, artful patterns in which he is caught.
Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer

Valerie Sinason
Audio of interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=... "it's not surprising that in that first group I worked with over 20 years ago I had 2 accounts of Jimmy Savile being an abuser where I did support some people to go to the police but it was seen as something impossible to consider at the time." "We have improved a lot as a society in the last 20 years in accepting the reality of abuse, even though it's still so hard for us." "When we look at adults who were abused in childhood we fi ...more
Valerie Sinason

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