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Book SynopsisA revealing meditation on the behind-the-scenes world of therapy and psychoanalysis in the 1960s.
1971 was the year Dina Glouberman went mad. Now, for the first time, Dr Dina Glouberman, renowned psychotherapist and author, co-founder of the world-famous Skyros Holidays, creator of Imagework therapy, and author of The Joy of Burnout, writes with candour and humour about a spell in a psychiatric ward. Indeed, she describes it as enlivening and enlightening, a catalyst for her rich and creative life.
Into the Woods and Out Again traces the journey from those wild and intense weeks in the Middlesex Hospital through five years of "normal life" and then on to twelve years of extraordinary creativity, when she had two babies, co-founded Skyros Holidays on a Greek island, pioneered her Imagework approach to therapy and personal development, had a life-changing spiritual experience, faced the loss of her father and brother, and wrote her first book. At the end of this book, a new cycle is just beginning, as she burns out, dismantles her marriage and her life, and discovers what is next.
This remarkable memoir is a revealing consideration into world of therapy and psychoanalysis in the 1960s, as well as on marriage, mothering, madness, imagination, aloneness, community and spirituality. Into the Woods and Out Again captures the inner life of a woman who has played a major role in the contemporary holistic and therapeutic world.
Trade Review'This remarkable book, written with candour, humour, and great insight, is a story of hope that will inspire anyone who reads it. I'm going to buy copies for my entire family!'- Jonny Benjamin MBE, mental health campaigner'Dina has enabled many people, including me, to validate their lives. She hasthe gifts of empathy, wisdom, high intelligence and humour, and this book is never less than seriously entertaining (and entertainingly serious). I hope you enjoy this brilliant and funny book and find something in these pages that reminds you that it is still wonderful to be human.'- Sue Townsend, author of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 , from the Preface'Don't miss this one. It's a deep, luminous and inspiring portrait of the inner and outer journeys of a world-famous psychotherapist and community builder, full of tears and laughter in equal measure. In so many ways, it speaks to and resonates with our troubled times.'- Professor Andrew Samuels, former Chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy'I am learning so much and laughing a lot and crying a lot. How hard it is to admit the weakness and the screw-ups... Dina did it and made it possible for the rest of us. She led the way! Such a valuable and fascinating read. Never a dull moment.'- Nell Dunn, author of Up the Junction, Poor Cow, and Steaming'Dina Glouberman has the rare ability to make her demons work for her. On the idyllic Greek island of Skyros she has created a sanctuary unlike any other. This is a remarkable book that may help those of us with our own demons to overcome them.'- Steven Berkoff, actor and director
Table of ContentsAbout the author
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Prologue
PART I
OVER THE EDGE AND BACK AGAIN
Chapter One - Preface to madness
Chapter Two - An adult life
Chapter Three - Slipping
Chapter Four - Falling over the edge
Chapter Five - Seeking asylum
Chapter Six - The hospital as community
Chapter Seven - Signs of spring
Now And Then
PART II
THE CHRYSALIS YEARS
Chapter Eight - Preface to sanity
Chapter Nine - Educating Dina
Chapter Ten - Fool or trickster?
Now and Then
PART III
THE CREATIVE YEARS: BIRTHS AND REBIRTHS
Chapter eleven - Preface to the creative years
Chapter Twelve - A baby is born
Chapter Thirteen - Seeds of Skyros
Chapter FourTeen - Skyros summer
Chapter Fifteen - The spirits are whispering
Chzpter Sixteen - Mother of two
Chapter Seventeen - The Skyros centre is born
Chapter Eighteen - A symbolic community
Now and Then
PART IV
THE CREATIVE YEARS: GAINS, LOSSES, AND THE RADICAL IMAGINATION
Chapter Nineteen - Emmet dies
Chapter Twenty - Just imagine
Chapter Twenty-One - An insight a day
Chapter Twenty-Two - Atsitsa is born
Chapter Twenty-Three - Growing up
Chapter Twenty-Four - Faking an orgasm before God
Chapter Twenty-Five - The case of the disappearing self
Chapter Twenty-Six - My father dies 241 now And Then
PART V
FROM BURNOUT TO NEBBISH WISDOM
Chapter Twenty-Seven - Dismantling
Chapter Twenty-Eight - Alone
Chapter Twenty-Nine - Socrates and the pig
Chapter Thirty - Nebbish wisdom
Now and Then
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