Who Is It Who Can Tell Me Who I Am?

Haynes, Jane

ISBN 10: 1845299728 / ISBN 13: 9781845299729

Published by Constable & Robinson, 2009

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # wbs4379981540

Synopsis:

In this searingly honest memoir, Jane Haynes recalls to her psychotherapist her extraordinary story. Having overcome her strange childhood, overshadowed by her mother's absence and father's descent into madness, the real diagnosis of which the family concealed, she attempts, vividly but without sentimentality, to understand the construction of her own life.

Now a psychotherapist in her own right, Haynes opens up her case files, which include a gifted young man on the cusp of a nervous breakdown; the middle-aged woman tormented by suicidal thoughts; the pornography addict, unable to connect emotionally with his girlfriend. Tragedy is brought home to her when her son-in-law is murdered. Her account powerfully demonstrates the resilience and life force of human nature.

'I recommend it to anyone concerned with the life of the imagination'
Hilary Mantel

About the Author: Jane Haynes is a relational psychotherapist and partner of intheconsultingroom.com London. Previously a partner at the Group Analytic Practice, London, until summer 2007, when she decided to set up her own partnership with a group of diverse young professionals.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Who Is It Who Can Tell Me Who I Am?
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good