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Who is it that can tell me who I am?, Jane Haynes ; foreword by Hilary Mantel

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Who is it that can tell me who I am?, Jane Haynes ; foreword by Hilary Mantel

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Who is it that can tell me who I am?

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

852757566

Responsibility statement

Jane Haynes ; foreword by Hilary Mantel

Summary

In this searingly honest memoir, Jane Haynes recalls to her psychotherapist her extraordinary story. Having overcome her strange childhood, overshadowed by her mother's absence and father's descent into madness, the real diagnosis of which the family concealed, she attempts, vividly but without sentimentality, to understand the construction of her own life. Now a psychotherapist in her own right, Haynes opens up her case files, which include a gifted young man on the cusp of a nervous breakdown; the middle-aged woman tormented by suicidal thoughts; the pornography addict, unable to connect

Table Of Contents

Cover; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Foreword by Hilary Mantel; Part One -- Your Consulting Room; Chapter One: The Statue and the Bust; Chapter Two: The Ides of March; Chapter Three: The Kingfisher and the Golden Flower; Chapter Four: When Death Speaks; Chapter Five: Ordinary Jocks Become Gods: the Erotic Transference; Part Two -- My Consulting Room; Chapter Six: The Scapegoat; Chapter Seven (I): 'Must I hold a candle to my shame?'; Chapter Seven (II): She Sat with Dark Eyes and Her Fingers Touching; Chapter Eight: 'Few love to hear the sins they love to act'Chapter Nine: Miss Suicide Shops at Tesco and Finds a PhoenixChapter Ten: 'As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods'; Chapter Eleven: Facing the Self: 'Is man no more than this?'; Select Bibliography

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