PROLOGUE

DIARY ENTRIES

Book 1 - 1990

Jan. - March 1990, Transference: Or My Analyst Has Curly Brown Hair

Sept. 1990, A Man's Behind the Desk and Time's Up

Sept. 3 - 28, 1990 - Ms. Doctor, Vacation Analyst  (She has a chapter all her own)

Sept. 8, 1990 - shabbes dream

n.d. Writing and the Analytic Process

n.d. When the Only Language I know is Poem

Book 2 - 1991

Feb. 21, 1991 - At the Hospital

May 1991 - He's Stopped Hugging Me the Way He Used To

June 11, 1991 - The Analyst as Betrayer

Sept. 7, 1991 - Dr. Fred Pine's  Visit

Fall 1991 - Hermeutically Yours: The Dyad as Text

Oct. 1991 - The Psychiatrist as Mentor

Oct. 1991 -  Teaching Psychoanalysis

Oct. 30, 1991 - Andrea Dworkin & the Alliance

n.d. 1991 - He Disgusts Me Today

Nov. 1, 1991 - Post Vacation; Gender & Creativity

Dec. 27, 1991 - Dissertation Dream

Book 3 - 1992

Feb.1992 - Notes on Countertransference

Spring 1992 - I Don't Remember Why I Hated Him

Book 4 - 1993

Spring 1993 -  Psychoanalysis as Place

April 27, 1993 - Same-Body Dream

Book 5 -  Part One: January to June 1994

Book 5 - Part Two: The Clean-Up Analyst and the Next Six Months

July 3,  1994 - It's Over, like a dream that never was ...

Book 6 - Post-Analytic Diary: 1995 - 2001

September 1, 1996 - Psychoanalysis and Suicide

A Day in 1997 - Psychoanalysis and the Writing Process

June 2, 1999 - The Wolf-Man and Me

November 9, 2000 - The Cinderella Complex or Thesis as Baby & Mother Takes the Rap

February 19, 2001 - Dream

Book 7 -  and thereafter ...

January 2, 2002 - Buxbaum's Diaries: Were they thrown out

February 2002 -  In My Dream - Danny Pearl: I felt he was family

March 2002 - No Cure

August 20, 2002 - Red-Diaper Baby: The Writer and Politics

April 15, 2003 - Writing and Censorship

September 9, 2003 - Psychoanalysis, Culture, Buxbaum, Me and An Analyst-Cousin's Comment

October 7 & 9, 2003 - Reading August Aichhorn

May 19, 2004 - Edith Buxbaum

Friday, May 21, 2004  - Letter to Edith

Tuesday June 28, 2005 - The Diary Form

Monday, July  4, 2005 - Writing as Mother

Fall 2005, Analytic Entrapment, essay, with poems and diary entries, appears in American Imago: Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences vol. 62, no. 3

Sept. 2005, Irena Klepfisz, loss and the poetry of exile, appears in Journal of Poetry Therapy, vol. 18, no. 3

June 2006, "Edith Buxbaum, Latency and Me - Between the Oedipus Complex and Adolescence: The Quiet Time -  Letter to Edith,"  appears in Journal of Poetry Therapy, Volume 19, Number 2 , June 2006, pp. 83-90.

Book 8 - Post-post analytic diary - He has been sued by a female client for sexual misconduct.

I am shocked and saddened, but I will name this analyst and question his peers:  Why were his patients, especially his former female patients, not told and protected?  Why were we, as consumers, not informed of his wrong-doing?  How long will Psychoanalysts and Their Institutes continue to hide behind closed doors?

Friday, Nov. 10, 2006 - Naming the Analyst

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