Shrinkwrapped: My First Fifty Years on the Couch by I Michael Grossman, Publisher RDR Books

Perhaps the worlds longest coming-of-age story,

SHRINKWRAPPED

shows how one mans search for a better life worked—at last.

In a blue-collar Michigan town where corporal punishment was seen as positive parenting, troubled families rarely sought professional help. But Michael Grossmans teachers sent him to see a Freudian psychoanalyst at age 7. It was the first of a parade of therapies that would include Rogerian bear-hugs, Gestalt dream analysis, Rolfing, Bioenergetics and even LSD.

Sitting beside Michael on a succession of shrinks couches, the reader follows his progress through one defense after another until he finally achieves a joyful capacity to care for others. Untangling the complex, sometimes eccentric and other times abusive family relationships that enmeshed his Midwestern boyhood in the mid-20th century, the author finally faces fundamental truths that lead to a profound transformation.

By turns funny, poignant and shocking, Shrinkwrapped is a story of hope, of growing insight and ultimately of love reborn. http://mygreenmind.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&am...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Psychology
• Bioenergetics
• Psychiatry
• Therapy
• Group Therapy
• Rite of Passage
• Memoir