In der Pan Am-Maschine nach Wien befanden sich 117 Psychoanalytiker, und mindestens sechs von ihnen hatten mich behandelt. Einen siebenten hatte ich geheiratet. Gott alléin weiB, ob ich es der Unfáhigkeit der Analytiker oder meiner eigenenfabelhaften Un-Analysierbarkeit zu verdanken hatte -...
Über dieses Buch Isadora Wing, die selbstkritische junge Amerikanerin, ist eine der vergnügtesten und rührendsten Heldinnen der Gegenwartsliteratur - eine entwaffnende und hinreißende Anti-Heldin. Immer auf der Suche nach Erlösern, Sinneslust und Sicherheit, ständig auf Trab und von einer...
"I want to be all that I am capable of
becoming "
KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888 -1923)
"I believe that we are solely responsible for
our choices, and we have to accept the
consequences of every deed, word, and
thought throughout our lifetime."
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS, b.1926
"My will shall...
Introduction
Every woman remembers her first period—where and when it happened, who, if anyone, she told, even what she was wearing. And yet, despite vivid memories of this momentous occasion, almost no one talks about it. Even fewer people write about it.
Why? Because first periods are an...
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh. God knows it was a tribute either to the shrinks' ineptitude or my own glorious unanalyzability that I was now, if anything, more scared of flying than when I began my...