Mockingbird Years: A Life In And Out Of Therapy By Emily Fox Gordon
Publisher: Basic Books | English | PDF | ISBN-10: 0465027288 | 256pages | 24.7MB
Mockingbird Years is not, perhaps, the ideal book to give to your therapist friends; it is, however, both a wickedly original personal history and a ringing critique of the therapy culture. A Life in and out of Therapy, the subtitle calls it, but as far as the bulk of the book is concerned, that's mostly in. An awkward, difficult, probably learning-disabled child, Emily Fox Gordon was a veteran of five different psychologists by the time she turned 17. She then spent several years of enforced idleness at a Massachusetts psychiatric hospital...