Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Birth of Empathy 1
Chapter 2 Searching for a Mentor 4
Chapter 3 I Want Her Gone 10
Chapter 4 Circling Back 15
Chapter 5 The Library, A-Z 23
Chapter 6 The Religious War 27
Chapter 7 A Gambling Lad 40
Chapter 8 A Brief History of Anger 44
Chapter 9 The Red Table 51
Chapter 10 Meeting Marilyn 59
Chapter 11 College Days 64
Chapter 12 Marrying Marilyn 77
Chapter 13 My First Psychiatric Patient 82
Chapter 14 Internship: The Mysterious Dr. Blackwood 86
Chapter 15 The Johns Hopkins Years 92
Chapter 16 Assigned to Paradise 111
Chapter 17 Coming Ashore 122
Chapter 18 A Year in London 142
Chapter 19 The Brief, Turbulent Life of Encounter Groups 151
Chapter 20 Sojourn in Vienna 156
Chapter 21 Every Day Gets a Little Closer 163
Chapter 22 Oxford and the Enchanted Coins of Mr. Sfica 169
Chapter 23 Existential Therapy 176
Chapter 24 Confronting Death with Rollo May 187
Chapter 25 Death, Freedom, Isolation, and Meaning 195
Chapter 26 Inpatient Groups and Paris 201
Chapter 27 Passage to India 208
Chapter 28 Japan, China, Bali, and Love's Executioner 220
Chapter 29 When Nietzsche Weft 234
Chapter 30 Lying on the Couch 246
Chapter 31 Monima and the Meaning of Life 252
Chapter 32 On Becoming Greek 262
Chapter 33 The Gift of Therapy 270
Chapter 34 Two Years with Schopenhauer 278
Chapter 35 Staring at the Sun 284
Chapter 36 Final Works 297
Chapter 37 Yikes! Text Therapy 305
Chapter 38 My Life in Groups 310
Chapter 39 On Idealization 323
Chapter 40 A Novice at Growing Old 334
Acknowledgments 343