Prologue To Dr. Freudine's Sex Therapy
Mar 01 '04
The Bottom Line Hopefully this helps a reader get into the book better!
PROLOGUE
Hello. My name is Dr. Sigmunda Freudine, which you’ve probably guessed is not my real name. It’s the only name I’m going to give you, though, because as a licensed psychiatrist who has since become prominent among my peers, this initial wading into the river, call it a testing of the water, here set forth for you and me would prove rather embarrassing.
I started out with one client, a manic-depressive we’ll call 29th Candidate, who I really didn’t know what to do with. He terrified me in a way because of that and so all I could do was listen and help him to talk, er, talk in a purposeful way, that is! I am including a write-up of our very first session in my office about three years ago that amuses me everytime I read it and think it will you, too. Don’t laugh too hard at me, please, if you would be so kind. Put yourself in my place.
After that I must jump ahead a couple of years because it’s then that I have a wake-up call at a meeting of my peers that encourages me to begin experimenting with different ways of counseling clients. I’m not sure if I’ve made any headway with 29th Candidate, but he wants to continue and I’m determined to help him somehow, as well as new clients I acquire.
Perhaps you’re wondering why I’m sharing my embarrassing past with you as the anonymous Dr. Freudine, graduate of Any College and psychiatrist of Any City, U.S.A. Why does anybody write their memoirs? I want to remember the journey for it’s the journey that is so important in the end. Life and being a psychiatrist are a process, sisters clinging to each other in the womb and awaiting birth. By sharing with you I feel listened to and affirmed as a human being much as my clients feel.
You could just as easily say this book is about learning to enjoy life and womanhood as it is about learning to be a better psychiatrist. I’m not going to be picky. Take from it what you desire and that’s good enough for me. You may notice that my life at first completely revolves around being a psychiatrist, but slowly I get out of my boring, windowless office and find there’s more to life.
Did I say boring? Oh, but I didn’t mean to imply...The office just looks boring, you see. Dang it, anyway! I hope I haven’t completely scared you off with this prologue.
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