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Coming to Terms with Aging
Books on aging offer secrets to stay young. But isn't it smarter to age gracefully and live a fuller life?  Author, I Michael Grossman |
SHRINKWRAPPED: my first fifty years on the couch.
Perhaps the world’s In a blue-collar Michigan town where corporal punishment was seen as positive parenting, troubled families rarely sought professional help. But Michael Grossman’s teachers sent him to see a Freudian psychoanalyst at age 8. It was the first of a parade of therapies that would include Rogerian bear-hugs, Gestalt dream analysis, Rolfing, Bioenergetics and even LSD. Sitting beside Michael on a succession of “shrinks’” couches, the reader follows his progress through one defense after another until he finally achieves a joyful capacity to care for others. Untangling the complex, sometimes eccentric and other times abusive family relationships that enmeshed his Midwestern boyhood in the mid-20th century, the author finally faces fundamental truths that lead to a profound transformation. By turns funny, poignant and shocking, Shrinkwrapped is a story of hope, of growing insight and ultimately of love reborn. |
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Manhattan, New York - Mid-Manhattan Public Library held Ludlow Vt Public Library held Providence RI Public Library held Hartford Public Library - Hartford, CT. held June 24, 2008 New York Mid Manhattan Public Library held on Manhattan on July 22, 2008 |
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