About The E-book

"This is not the first book where a therapist opens her case files, but it is surely the first one where the reader feels so welcomed on an equal basis. Jane Haynes doesn't keep from us her own story - her strange childhood with its enfolded and sequential mysteries - and she explains how the process of psychotherapy has worked for her." Hilary Mantel

In Part One Haynes, as both a Jungian psychoanalytic trainee and patient, recalls to her analyst, in the form of memoir, experiences in her childhood with her father who unbeknown to her was suffering from neuro-syphilis.

In Part Two Haynes records her clinical development from a Jungian psychoanalyst to a therapist who considers that dialogue and narrative - within the therapeutic space of an ethical and engaged relationship - are the principle healing elements of 'The Talking Cure'.

In the chapter: 'Must I hold a candle to my shames?' she provides an opportunity for the reader to compare her version of a young man's experience of psychoanalysis, which is presented alongside his own remembered version, written ten years after he completed the treatment.



"It conveys that interface in the psyche where analysis and childhood merge and create a new reality, an intensity of vision redolent with a distilled feeling. Like opening an old notebook with the memories of a painful affair... "

Jim Fitzgerald Jungian analyst