Dear Reader,

Some analysts suggest that writing or reading about psychoanalysis while undergoing the process is not appropriate, but I read everything I could get my hands on. I also kept a written account of the analytic relationship from the first day in January 1990 to the last day in June 1994.

I have literally thousands of pages. In dozens of notebooks.  Some of the entries are typed; others are handwritten.  Slowly, I am transcribing the entries and placing them on-line.

It is my intent to bear witness to the events that unfolded in the therapy room that I inhabited. Perhaps others will benefit from my experience.                                                                              
             Esther Altshul Helfgott              



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Psychoanalysis: The Magic and The Lie
Diary of a Five Day A Week Analysis
by Esther Altshul Helfgott, Ph.D.

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