A Different Path

<p><strong>An engaging book that charts the turbulent journey from childhood to adulthood of a well-known psychoanalyst.</strong></p><p></p><p>Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my having lived in it?</p><p>Neville Symington has written a dozen books about psychoanalysis but this one is different from all the others. It is an emotional autobiography that starts with his own birth and gives a character sketch of his mother and father and his upbringing in Portugal with a two year period in Canada and takes the reader through to the age of 45 by which time he was a qualified psychoanalyst married with two sons and at the time living in London.</p><p>This sounds like the story of a peaceful journey from childhood through to his chosen career in adulthood. However the author takes the reader through the period of his earlier career in the Church in a parish in the East End of London and the turbulent period of change that led him to take leave of this first career seek psychoanalysis and finally to become a psychoanalyst himself.</p><p>This is an engaging book that charts the emotional storms and the ups and downs that beset the life's journey of a well-known psychoanalyst.</p>