Describes the current lives of former patients and discusses the ways in which their lives have changed

Tales from a Traveling Couch: A Psychoatherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Akeret, Robert U.

Psychology & Counseling

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

With 150 photographs of famous people and ordinary folks, this engaging book uncovers the stories behind the pictures. There is more going on in most photographs than we usually see―hidden desires and fears, unspoken loves and hates, people's valiant efforts to camouflage themselves in the public world, and the inevitable leakage of their hopes and dreams and difficulties. Most of us do not see these aspects because, as Robert Akeret says, we do not know the vocabulary of photolanguage. Here, using 150 photographs spanning 100 years, Akeret explores such themes as power, seduction, immortality, passion, and narcissism. Readers will find Frank Sinatra uncharacteristically off balance, O. J. Simpson smirking his way to freedom, Jodie Foster adored by her mother, Bill Clinton unconvincingly wagging a finger, and Bill Gates as the Wizard of Oz. The author shares his personal interpretations, teaching by example and inviting readers to join the fun. 148 black-and-white photographs. 148 black-and-white photographs

Photolanguage: How Photos Reveal the Fascinating Stories of Our Lives and Relationships

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

W.W.Norton&Company

After thirty-five years in practice, prominent New York psychotherapist and author Robert Akeret found himself in the thrall of a single question: Did therapy make a real difference in his patients lives? So, on a sunny morning in April, Dr. Akeret got in his van and set off to visit his most memorable former patients--a journey "in search of story endings." And what remarkable stories they are... Naomi, an abused young Jewish girl from the Bronx who transforms herself into a Spanish flamenco dancer named Isabella--what is she like now, in her mid-fifties? What about Charles, who fell madly in love with a circus polar bear? Had he been able to resist his fatal psychosexual attraction? What of Sasha, the dashing, prize-winning French novelist with writers block and a penchant for exploiting women? In the end, did his art prevail or his life? And what became of Mary--did she ever "murder" again? Like a brilliant psychological detective novel, this book tells its stories in fascinating detail while raising fundamental questions about psychotherapy.

Tales from a Traveling Couch: Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients

A guide to bringing the lost art of storytelling into the family offers a ten-step program and provides tools for triggering the memory of life stories

Family Tales, Family Wisdom: How to Gather the Stories of a Lifetime and Share Them With Your Family

Klein, Daniel M.

Reference

Henry Holt Co.

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