Mockingbird Years:  A Life In and Out of Therapy
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Publisher:  Basic Books

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Here in her own words is Emily Fox Gordon, therapy veteran, sometime mental patient, and a prizewinning essayist. Mockingbird Years is the story of Gordon's "therapeutic education," marked by no fewer than five therapists before she turned seventeen. At eighteen, after a half-hearted suicide attempt, Gordon, mired in adolescent angst, began a three-year sojourn at the prestigious Austen Riggs sanitarium. It was at Riggs that Gordon was "rescued" by the maverick psychoanalyst Leslie Farber, whose challenges to Gordon would continue to surface in profound and unexpected ways throughout her life...