Divorcing Mom: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis was her familys religion--instead of wafers and wine there were Seconals Nembutals and gin. Baptized into the faith at fourteen Melissa Knox endured her analysts praise of her childlike victimized mother--who leaned too close ate off Melissas plate and thought pedophile meant silly person. Gaslighted with the notions that shed seduced her father failed to masturbate and betrayed her mother Melissa shouldered the blame. Her story of a family pulled into and torn apart by psychoanalysis exposes the abuse inherent in its authoritarianism as Melissa learns with a startling sense of humor and admirable chagrin that divorcing Mom is sometimes the least crazy thing to do.