The Healing Power of Psychoanalysis, Revealed by a Patient for the First Time

 

Joan K. Peters who got her Ph.D in comparative literature from The University of Chicago joins eHealth Radio and the Health News Channel. She's published a novel and two books about women and work and is a professor emeritus of literature and writing at California State University at Channel Islands. Her new book is Untangling: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Joan K. Peters discuss the following:

1. What made you want to write a memoir of psychoanalysis, which is so personal and private? Why expose yourself in that way?
2. Everyone seems to go to therapy but you rarely hear anyone talk about psychoanalysis, what does it add to therapy? What made you choose it over therapy?
3. What will other people learn about themselves from reading about your personal journey through psychoanalysis?
4. How is your life different after psychoanalysis, and what were the great change agents in the process?
5. Do you feel psychoanalysis, as you experienced it, has something important to say about our culture at this time?

UNTANGLING: With the drama of a novel, Untangling tells the story of a transformative psychoanalysis, the first in-depth account by a patient. In Peters’ tempestuous twenties, a classical analysis quieted her recurring nightmares through a discovery of her family’s secret past. Decades later, her second analyst, Kristi, guided her through the frightening depths of that past as it played out in the intense strife and love in their relationship. In another first, Kristi writes an afterword about the challenge of analyzing Peters. Unique in its reach, Untangling reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis and of the psyche.

Website: https://www.untanglingjoan.com

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