A Shining AfflictionI. The Other Side Of Silence
II. Silence
III. Messenger
IV. Epilogue
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Annie G. Rogersis the professor of psychoanalysis and clinical psychology at Hampshire College as well as being on the faculty of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco. She is the winner of a Fulbright Fellowship in Ireland, a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University, and a Whiting Fellowship at Hampshire College. She is the author of A Shining Affliction,The Unsayable- The Hidden Language of Trauma, as well as many other works, both fiction and nonfiction.
"Soars into sublime meditation...what makes this book so
extraordinary is her willingness to reveal exactly what goes on in
the sometimes mysterious encounter between therapist and patient."
—Los Angeles Times
"Ms. Rogers tells an important truth...Healers are inevitably
wounded themselves, just because they are human, and Ms.
Rogers...challenges her fellow clinicians to acknowledge how their
own personal histories shape their work as therapists. What finally
shines forth from Ms. Rogers' narrative of affliction is her stern
and compassionate understanding of the 'terrible responsibility'
she and her fellow therapists have 'of holding another's heart in
our hands,' while 'not forsaking ourselves.'" —Sharon O'Brien, New
York Times
"A book at once somber and powerfully affecting—a story of how
those of us who work psychologically with others can fail them (and
ourselves) or be of great assistance. She writes a clearm honest,
compelling narrative which at times sings lyrically, and constantly
instructs." —Dr. Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
Children of Crisis
"A beautifully written first-person account of a novice
therapist's trial by fire... [Rogers] humanizes therapists and
provides an illuminating inside view of their training and the
two-sided nature of their work." —Kirkus Reviews
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