The Healing Power of Psychoanalysis, Revealed by a Patient for the First Time I’m contacting you with a guest/segment idea on psychoanalysis by someone who undertook the journey, healed lifelong emotional and psychological wounds, and wrote a memoir that's the first in-depth personal account told from the patient’s point of view. The Big Idea: Psychoanalysis is full of mysteries — it taps into the subconscious more than any other form of therapy and sets up a unique relationship between analyst and patient. No one really knows exactly how or why it works, just that it does. But one patient, in candidly revealing her own journey, invites readers into that very private patient experience as she grapples with hidden and haunting demons. Why it Matters: Whether due to taboo, fear, shame, or reluctance, very few patients have shared their journey of psychoanalysis with others, let alone written about the experience. Too many people are unaware of the transformative powers that this penetrating, multi-layered therapy has. Key Messages:  In her unique memoir, written in the narrative style of Mary Karr, the author recounts her two analyses — one when she is in her twenties and another in her sixties — that form one continuous story of immense discovery and healing. She dramatizes firsthand accounts of how she and her two very different analysts unlocked the traumas, losses and terrors of her past, enabling her to confront and understand them, and finally feel free to fully enjoy her life. 

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