Holding On and Letting Go: Poems and Illustrations

The author, a psychoanalyst, has collected his philosophical poems and primitive drawings (the latter which he did while his patients were on the couch. Two categories of poems populate the book. Those in the first section, "Holding On," were mainly done in the first half of his life, before he had undergone, in his words, "a thousand years of psychotherapy." The describe he consequence of holding on to feelings. Those in the second section, "Letting Go," describe the state of accepting life as it is and living in harmony, a state which he aspired to and is still aspiring to. In all there are 59 poems and 50 drawings. Both the poems and the drawings can be interpreted like dreams, providing a glimpse of both his conscious and unconscious mind. He passes on this collection in the hope that others will benefit from his journey.

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Ebook: 15 Juli 2021