{"product_id":"into-the-woods-and-out-again-a-memoir-of-love-madness-and-transformation-9781912573066","title":"Into the Woods and Out Again: A Memoir of Love, Madness, and Transformation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA revealing meditation on the behind-the-scenes world of therapy and psychoanalysis in the 1960s.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1971 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInto the Woods and Out Again\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePrologue\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART I\u003cbr\u003e OVER THE EDGE AND BACK AGAIN\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter One - Preface to madness\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Two - An adult life\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Three - Slipping\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Four - Falling over the edge\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Five - Seeking asylum\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Six - The hospital as community\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Seven - Signs of spring\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNow And Then\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART II\u003cbr\u003e THE CHRYSALIS YEARS\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Eight - Preface to sanity\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Nine - Educating Dina\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Ten - Fool or trickster?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNow and Then\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART III\u003cbr\u003e THE CREATIVE YEARS: BIRTHS AND REBIRTHS\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter eleven - Preface to the creative years\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve - A baby is born\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Thirteen - Seeds of Skyros\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter FourTeen - Skyros summer\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Fifteen - The spirits are whispering\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChzpter Sixteen - Mother of two\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Seventeen - The Skyros centre is born\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Eighteen - A symbolic community\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNow and Then\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART IV\u003cbr\u003e THE CREATIVE YEARS: GAINS, LOSSES, AND THE RADICAL IMAGINATION\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Nineteen - Emmet dies\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Twenty - Just imagine\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Twenty-One - An insight a day\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Twenty-Two - Atsitsa is born\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Twenty-Three - Growing up\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Twenty-Four - Faking an orgasm before God\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Twenty-Five - The case of the disappearing self\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Twenty-Six - My father dies 241 now And Then\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART V\u003cbr\u003e FROM BURNOUT TO NEBBISH WISDOM\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Twenty-Seven - Dismantling\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Twenty-Eight - Alone\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Twenty-Nine - Socrates and the pig\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Thirty - Nebbish wisdom\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNow and Then\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aeon Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53191484342615,"sku":"9781912573066","price":17.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/into-the-woods-and-out-again-a-memoir-of-love-madness-and-transformation-9781912573066","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}