Jessica: The autobiography of an infant - Hardcover

Von Glahn PH D, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0595857639 ISBN 13: 9780595857630

Publisher: iUniverse, 2006

Synopsis

Jessica had always been haunted by the fear that the unthinkable had happened when she had been “made-up”. She had no sense of Self. Just thinking of saying “I need” or “I want” left her feeling like an empty shell and that her mind was about to spin out of control. Terrified of who—or what—she was, she lived in constant dread over being found guilty of impersonating a human being.

Jeffrey Von Glahn, Ph.D., an experienced therapist with an unshakable belief in the intrinsic healing powers of the human psyche, and Jessica, his courageous client, blaze a trail into this unexplored territory. As if she has, in fact, become an infant again, Jessica remembers in extraordinary detail events from the earliest days of her life—events that had threatened to twist her embryonic humanness from its natural course of development. Her recollections as an adult are the equivalent of listening to an infant who could talk describe every psychologically dramatic moment of its life as it is happening.

Jessica’s electrifying journey into her mystifying past brings her ever closer to a final confrontation with the traumatic events that had threatened to strip her of her basic humanness.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeffrey Von Glahn, Ph.D., has been a psychotherapist for 45 years, and counting. That experience has been, and continues to be, more exciting and fulfilling than he had ever imagined. Whether it's the first session with a new client or the hundredth one with the same client, this intimate way of engaging with another person continues to have the same mesmeric appeal for him it has always had. On occasion, he has been known to suddenly exclaim, "If I believed in reincarnation - which I don't - but if I did my fondest wish would be to come back as a therapist."

What has been especially rewarding for Jeffrey - as he prefers to be called - is when he's been able to help someone reconnect with a "lost" part of their basic humanness. That's when he feels he's helped to give birth to a new human being. He doesn't mean that literally, of course, but there's no other way of explaining how he feels when he's sitting face-to-face with someone and he sees such a dramatic change.

And even after all these years, each client presents another opportunity for him to learn more about psychotherapy, and to learn more about how to help someone regain contact with a part of his or her basic humanness that fortuitous events from earlier in life had secreted away for safe-keeping. What makes it all an especially significant experience for Jeffrey is that he gets to use all of his intellectual skills and all of his basic caring instincts at the same time.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0595857639
• ISBN 13: 9780595857630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264