Becomeing Myself

BECOMING MYSELF

CHAPTER ONE : The Birth of Empathy …………… 1
CHAPTER TWO : Searching for a Mentor ……………… 4
CHAPTER THREE : I Want Her Gone ……………….. 10
CHAPTER FOUR : Circling Back ……………………… 15
CHAPTER FIVE : The Library , A – Z …………………. 25
CHAPTER SIX : The Religious CHAPTER War ………. 27
CHAPTER SEVEN : A Gambling Lad ………………….. 40
CHAPTER EIGHT : A Brief History of Anger …………….. 44
CHAPTER NINE : The Red Table ………………………. 51
CHAPTER TEN : Meeting Marilyn ……………………… 59
CHAPTER ELEVEN : College Days ……………………… 64
CHAPTER TWELVE : Marrying Marilyn …………………. 77
CHAPTER THERTEEN : My First Psychiatric Patient ……. 82
CHAPTER FOURTEEN : Internship :
The Mysterious Dr, Blackwood ……. 86
CHAPTER FIFTEEN : The Johns Hopkins Years …………. 92
CHAPTER SIXTEEN : Assigned to Paradise …………… 111
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN : Corning Ashore ……………. 122
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN : A Year in London …………….. 142
CHAPTER NINETEEN : The Brief , Turbulent Life of
Encounter Groups ………………. 151
CHAPTER TWENTY : Sojourn in Vienna ……………… 156
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE : Every Day Gets a Little Closer ,,, 163
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO : Oxford and the
Enchanted Coins of Mr. Sfica ……. 169
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE : Existential Therapy ………… 176
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR : Confronting Death with Rollo May 187
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE : Death, Freedom ,
Isolation , and Meaning ………… 195
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX : Inpatient Groups and Paris ………. 201
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN : Passage to India ………….. 208
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT : Japan , China , Bali ,
and Love's Executioner …………….. 220
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE : When Nietzsche Wept ……….. 234
CHAPTER THIRTY : Lying on the Couch ………………. 246
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE : Momma and the Meaning of Life …. 252
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO : On Becoming Greek ………… 262
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE : The Gift of Therapy ……….. 270
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR : Two Years with Schopenhauer 278


CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE : Staring at the Sun …………. 284
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX : Final Works …………. 297
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN : Yikes ! Text Therapy …… 305
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT : My Life in Groups ……. 310
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE : On Idealization ………. 323
CHAPTER FORTY : A Novice at Growing Old ….. 334


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ………………………………… 343