Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story of midlife crisis and resolution--is, on one level; as old as writing itself. Although Marie Cardinal's novelized versions of this story is sometimes marred by predictable writing, her occasional fine passages and unique perspective mark the other side of the psychoanalytic coach--as patient not doctor--make this an unusual and worthwhile novel...
...physical illness which creates irrational anxiety and fear in the mind, continuous bleeding and a racing pulse in the body. Cardinal plays the analyst here, setting in order the critical phases of her narrator's treatment, creating a series of dramatic episodes which take the reader through the patient's alternating confusion and revelation until the chaos of madness is resolved...
...experience Marie Cardinal relates in her novel is valuable independent of her prose style. This is one of the new accounts of psychoanalysis written from the patient's perspective. What is more, Cardinal has not related the exact events and facts of her life: she has presented selected aspects of her analysis on a more general level. The Words to Say It is a universal story of self-discovery, relevant to all who have parents and the embarrassing memories of growing...
...patient of Sexologist Havelock Ellis, who described her in his autobiography as "a shy sinuous figure, so slender and so tall that she seemed frail, yet lithe, one divined, of firm and solid texture." Freud, who analyzed her in the early '30s for $25 a session, told her she was a classic example of bisexuality. H.D.'s own ideal was not a psychological abstraction but a statue of a sleeping hermaphrodite that she had seen as a young woman at the Diocletian Gallery in Rome...
...example, students would be presented with the case of a patient with a ruptured spleen, and then learn anatomy and physiology necessary to treat such a condition...