Broken fathers/broken sons : a psychoanalyst remembers / / Gerald J. Gargiulo.

• Superior document: Contemporary psychoanalytic studies, 7
• Author: Gargiulo, Gerald J.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This memoir is a story of loss and gain, of alienation and reconciliation, and of how such experiences go into the making of a psychoanalyst. In sharing his own very troubled family history, his decade as a Carmelite monk, his marriage and career as a psychoanalyst, Gargiulo shows how the diverse pieces of one’s life can fit together into something that is meaningful and real. This is one person’s life - but it relates to us all. “We are bound together, each of us,” the author writes, “in our living, our troubles and our joys. As we hear another's story, we are, simultaneously, writing our own autobiography.”

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Remembering Humpty -- Carmelite Passage -- Finding a Voice -- Mother Earth -- Talking Memories -- Running -- Interlude: Of Elephants and Kings -- Bridges -- Holding Dreams -- Dancing with God -- The Dreaming Knight -- Grieving Lilacs -- Finding My Father -- Memory and Time -- End Thoughts -- Epilogue: (Summer 2002) -- Poems For Late Night Reading (A few more selections) -- About The Author.