Who is it that can tell me who I am

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In this searingly honest memoir, Jane Haynes recalls to her psychotherapist her extraordinary story. Having overcome her strange childhood, overshadowed by her mother's absence and father's descent into madness, the real diagnosis of which the family concealed, she attempts, vividly but without sentimentality, to understand the construction of her own life.

Now a psychotherapist in her own right, Haynes opens up her case files, which include a gifted young man on the cusp of a nervous breakdown; the middle-aged woman tormented by suicidal thoughts; the pornography addict, unable to connect emotionally with his girlfriend. Tragedy is brought home to her when her son-in-law is murdered. Her account powerfully demonstrates the resilience and life force of human nature.

'I recommend it to anyone concerned with the life of the imagination'

Hilary Mantel

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Absolutely brilliant ... I have never read anything like it. This is certainly the best account of what analysis can - and can't - do that I have ever read or ever expect to read.

Engrossing and poignant - New Statesman

Literally life-changing. - Evening Standard

Deeply moving and gracefully written. - Catholic Herald

Disturbingly honest and beautifully written ... literally life-changing. - Evening Standard

Author Bio

Jane Haynes is a relational psychotherapist and partner of intheconsultingroom.com London. Previously, a partner at the Group Analytic Practice, London, until summer 2007, when she decided to set up her own partnership with a group of diverse young professionals.