Bioenergetics Press

Description

In a Bible-Belt Michigan town where corporal punishment was seen as positive parenting,, troubled families rarely sought professional help. Yet Michael Grossman's teachers sent him to see Freudian psychoanalyst at age eight. It was the first of a parade of therapies that would include Rogerian bear-hugs, Gestalt dream analysis, Rolfing, Bioenergetics and even LSD.

Sitting beside Michael on a succession of "shrinks'" couches, the reader follows his progress through one defense after another until he finally achieves a joyful capacity to care for others.

Untangling the complex, sometimes eccentric and other times abusive family relationships that enmeshed his Midwestern boyhood in the mid-20th century, the author finally faces fundamnetal truths that lead to a profound transformatin. By turns funny, piognant, shocking, Shrinkwrapped is a story of hope, of growing insight and ultimately of love reborn.