What are you reading?

[Greco]

Yes, I have found Alice Miller's ability to share on a personal level, and
her direct, forthright writing to be a breath of fresh air. It also shows
her level of commitment to her own healing, which she so eloquently
shares in her books. I respect that she has done her childhood wound
healing, and has been open to sharing her process, her discoveries, and
the forward movement that her life has taken.

Thanks for your sharing, enjoy your weekend.

Greco

Originally Posted by nycfembbw

I like to do that too.

Ya know, I actually never finished "The Drama..." It was years ago in grad school, and other reading ended up taking priority, and I never went back to it, though the book sits on my shelf waiting for me to go back to it. It's not light reading, so I seem to end up picking up other books instead. Still, it's great and powerful writing. What I was struck by is her psychoanalytic ability to just get right into MY psyche, such that I was having intense dreams about issues from childhood related to her writing that I'd never put together before in consciousness. That's a rarity for me, even though I am a therapist myself and certainly have read other books that examine childhood with depth. Another writer I like that reminds me a bit of Walker is D.W. Winnicot (e.g. the true self vs. the false self). His analytic philosophy and conceptions have a primal truth to them that make sense to me.