A book of insights into the process of psychotherapy and the healing of the mind: the emotions of therapy probed and illuminated as only a writer can.

Building on three decades of writing experience, the author draws the reader into the depths of depression, the exultations of joy, the roller coaster of transference and dependency, the release of recovery. The unexpected medium? Poetry. Poetry that is lyrical and accessible to all, arranged as a chronicle of the therapeutic process and giving voice to every patient's unspoken experiences on the "journey of a lifetime."

For patients, their friends, and relatives and for therapists, teachers, and students.

Ms. Cullen, an accomplished author, captures the feelings and experiences of individuals in psychotherapy in this chronicle of lyrical and accessible poems. Many of these poems have been published singly in literary magazines and psychology journals.