his connection to others and himself, his thirty-year depression is in full remission. First, he stopped the addictive defenses that stabilized his depression and held it in place. Second, he learned how to parent himself, nurture, guide, and contain himself, on a daily basis. Finally, he delved deep into his early darkness and released the introjected imagery, feelings, and shame he had taken in. Jeffrey Robinson is a hero. No less than Dante, Aeneas, Oedipus, he has descended. And he has emerged.
