Table of Contents

I. EMBARKING

The Special Hour
Cousin
Therapeutic Touch
The Hook
Transference
My Analyst
Analyst to Patient
Projection?  Not Me!
Webs
Safari
Mirrors
Trust
Flood
Depression
Growing Pains
Patience in Treatment
Acrobatics
Icicles-Paint
Two Minutes Left
Small Talk
Carpentry
How Can You Say
       I’m Special?
Can It Be?
Separation Anxiety

II.  IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN

The Lucky Ones
Compatriots
Curiosity
Cathexis
Siren’s Song
Incest
Therapeutic
       Relationship
My Men
To My Ethical Analyst

III.  STORM WARNINGS

Longing
Angst
The Host
Serving Analysand Time
Hold Your Breath
Girl Child
My Two Mothers
Duals’ Duel
Dual Feelings
Limitations
Oh, To Be Written Up
A Matter of Time?
       A Matter of Money?
Almost Home?

IV.  EYE OF THE STORM

Doctor, Tell Me
Changing Houses,
       Changing Skins
An Analyst’s Movement
Retreat From Trying
I Can’t Seem To Reach
       Her
Wrong Words
The Poet and the Analyst
Therapy Dance
It’s Impractical
Kitchen Incarceration
Mother Lessons
Tapestry
Choices
Suicide
Graveyard
Premature Interpretation
Lullaby
Voice Bridge
Patient’s Last Recourse
Suicide Rejected
Compassionate
       Intervention
Timely Interpretation
The Patient is Perverse

V.  ALMOST HOME

Something Borrowed
Drilling
Dream Work
I Deny an Inner Life
“The Royal Road”
Unconscious
Necromancy
Analytic Session
Ouch!
Dissociation
End and Beginning
Take Me with You
Analyst’s Vacation
Interim Psychiatrist
To My Analyst
Planting
Generations
Therapeutic Caring
Renewal
The Gift
Inspiration

VI.  PORT

Turning Point
Reconstructive
       Surgery
Sun Ray Day
Window Shopping
Psychoanalysis
Caving
If the Skin Fits
The Analyst Man
Support from Without
       to Support from
       Within
Rising
Subterranean Activity

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