Fighting for Love: Journal of a Training Analysis [Hardcover]

This book is a moving account of the author's traumatic childhood as a survivor of a Japanese concentration camp in WW2 and of her 8-year psychoanalysis. Unique is the use of a daily journal, kept during her psychoanalysis to give detailed exploration of trauma, dissociation, and repressed rage, relived and healed through the analytic relationship. It is a tribute to a brave patient and skilled psychoanalyst and richly informative to the readers. Recommended to all who wish to understand how psychoanalysis can cure.

Judy L. Kantrowitz, PhD; training and supervising analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; author, The Role of the Analyst-Patient Match

This book is a beautifully written narrative of the authors psychoanalytic journey to integrate and make meaning of an almost-forgotten, but life-changing childhood experience. Goldsmith generously invites us to accompany her in her turbulent and transformative experience of a psychoanalytic treatment, tracked in an intimate diary. This book is an important contribution for anyone who has experienced childhood trauma or for anyone who treats the aftermath of trauma. One gets a vivid understanding of how the human mind protects itself from experiences that are too overwhelming to be understood or processed at the time they occur.

Judith A. Yanof, MD; training and supervising analyst and child supervisor, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

With its focus on the patients experience, this penetrating book corrects our professional literatures over-emphasis on the analysts perspective. Marianne Goldsmith writes a love letter to the psychoanalytic discipline, and to her own analyst, in an account honoring the complexity and richness lC)