Chapter Introduction / Susan M. Fereday -- part I The Inevitable Road to Therapy -- chapter Taking Care of Mother / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter School Shoes / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter Unhappy Pills / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter Abandoned / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter He's on the Roof / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter Mother's Day / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter I'm Listening / Susan M. Fereday -- part II Breakthrough / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter Tom's Story / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter You're Talking about an Addiction / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter Disintegration / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter Two Realities / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter Baby Steps / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter Melanie's Example / Susan M. Fereday -- part III Integration -- chapter Back to School / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter My Self / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter The Dream Catcher / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter Therapy Revisited / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter Free to Choose / Susan M. Fereday -- chapter Journey's End / Susan M. Fereday
Summary
This book is a personal account of the enduring value of an appropriate psychotherapeutic intervention, and is set within the author's lifespan to date. It is also a unique view of how it feels to be the subject of a published case study. Following a long period of resistance to the therapeutic process, a direct channel to the author's unconscious is established via the art of the written word. It is a first person, chronological account of the psychological signposts that relentlessly point the author toward an unavoidable therapeutic encounter, one that will ultimately have the strength to c