Word: psychotherapist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three heroines, living in London and in their mid-40s when the decade of the 1980s dawns, provide a focus for Drabble's tumultuous plot: Liz Headleand, twice married and a successful psychotherapist; Alix Bowen, ditto and a believer in socially useful work like teaching English literature to female criminals; Esther Breuer, unmarried and a dilettantish specialist in the early Italian Renaissance. Although they have taken different paths, Liz, Alix and Esther share a long friendship and common bonds dating back to their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s. "These three women," Drabble notes, "it will readily and perhaps...
Simpson calls herself one of the lucky ones because she had an older sister to help her survive the crippling emotional deprivation of orphanhood. And so she grew up and got married and became a psychotherapist. It was only when her second husband died of cancer that the sense of loss suddenly reawakened, that the "black ink of anxiety spilled and spread, saturating the fabric of my life...
Susan has now developed a considerably respectable practice as a psychotherapist, and her dialogue reveals her proficiency at counseling, especially when she is called on to comfort Caroline Rogers...
...blocks apart in Manhattan, never knowing where she had left her sneakers. Bonham Carter's father, a merchant banker, suffered a brain tumor when she was 13, and was paralyzed when an operation to remove it went wrong. Her family rallied, and both her father and her mother, a psychotherapist, now take an amused pleasure in her success. But it was her own reaction at the time that is astonishing. Apparently feeling that it was time to prepare for independence, Helena took (pounds)25 she had won in a countrywide young-writers contest and, on her own, bought a quarter...
...restaurant and was not sure who should pick up the tab. "Dreams of this kind are common when patients respond therapeutically to therapist-madness," Langs writes. "The patient wonders whether he should not receive the fee . . ." In another case that Langs studied, the patient of a corrupt psychotherapist improved for a time and married successfully, apparently in an unconscious attempt to show the therapist what a life of integrity would look like. "The patient obtains a great deal of hidden satisfaction in functioning as a therapist to his or her own therapist," says the author...