voices in the head

Music: The Smiths: The Queen is Dead (1986)

My shrink and I have often discussed our attempts to get published. In some ways, I think it is easier for academics to get their books published because academic presses are typcially not-for-profit. It's tougher trying to publish a book aimed at a more general audience; when Tom Frentz was trying to get Janice Rushing's book published shortly after she died, he was told to get an "agent" and so on.

In any event, the therapist phoned to tell me, after many years of shopping it around, her first book is out! It's fascinating stuff--and very approachable. If you're too hung up on towing the proper, psychoanalytic line you may take exception to her approach, but the case is still fascinating. Check it out: Beyond These Walls: The True Story of a Lost Child's Journey to a Whole Life here.