Psychoanalysis: The Magic and The Lie Diary of a Five Day A Week Analysis by Esther Altshul Helfgott, Ph.D. |
This page was last updated on: July 23, 2005
In the end, I thought I would commit suicide. That I didn't had more to do with my husband's stability and his commitment to me and our marriage than it did to anything I may have gotten out of the psychoanalytic process. |
Sept. 1, 1996 |
I was not alone. Had I been, I don't know if I would be sitting here today documenting the history of my psychoanalysis. |
My devotion to my mother and children, their closeness to me, was life-saving. I could not have withstood the anguish of termination without their need for me. |
If I thought I could have suicided after terminatio n, what does that say about an analysis for people less strong than I? Not a good methodolog y, I'd say. Even more so, a lousy analyst. The profession is not good at checking its own. |
Copyright2005Esther Altshul Helfgott |
His job was to help me leave, and he refuse d. |
I should sue him ... lotta good that would do |
