| Shrinkwrapped: My First Fifty Years on the Couch Contributor(s): Grossman, I. Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 193851730X ISBN-13: 9781938517303 Publisher: eBook Bakery OUR PRICE: $11.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling - Medical | Mental Health - Family & Relationships | Abuse - Child Abuse |
| Dewey: 616 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.81 lbs) 274 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Perhaps the world's longest coming-of-age story, SHRINKWRAPPED shows how one man's search for a better life worked-at last. In a blue-collar Michigan town where corporal punishment was seen as positive parenting, troubled families rarely sought professional help. But Michael Grossman's teachers sent him to see a Freudian psychoanalyst at age 7. It was the first of a parade of therapies that would include Rogerian bear-hugs, Gestalt dream analysis, Rolfing, Bioenergetics and even LSD. Sitting beside Michael on a succession of "shrinks'" couches, the reader follows his progress through one defense after another until he finally achieves a joyful capacity to care for others. Untangling the complex, sometimes eccentric and other times abusive family relationships that enmeshed his Midwestern boyhood in the mid-20th century, the author finally faces fundamental truths that lead to a profound transformation. By turns funny, poignant and shocking, Shrinkwrapped is a story of hope, of growing insight and ultimately of love reborn. |