Panic Attacks in Pistachio

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It was happening again.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I had to see her.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I couldn't stand it:</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sweating</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Being dizzy</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Heart pounding so hard you knew you were going to die</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Right now. </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Die. </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Alone in the middle of the street in pain.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Only I had been enough times to ER to know </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>it wasn't a heart attack. </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Or not a heart attack in the sense of something wrong with my heart muscle.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It was a different kind of heart attack</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A heart attack in my soul.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I had to see her.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She was the only one who helped.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I had to...</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><em>Panic Attacks in Pistachio: A Psychological Detective Story</em> begins in the middle of a panic attack and never lets up. The man suffering from these agonizing panic attacks comes to his regular therapy session but instead of finding comfort discovers something no patient would ever expect to find. The drive to discover the truth behind this terrifying mystery sets him out on a quest even a crusade to discover the meaning of what happened. He must search among his fellow patients and ultimately enter his therapist's temenos the holy of holies. In this psychological detective journey he finds powerful help through active imagination from the greatest detectives of all time Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. These inner figures help him solve the mystery and the process helps transform tragedy into the beginning of individuation. He discovers many secrets and ultimately the hidden connection between pistachio ice cream and his panic attacks. Written as a thriller told in the first person based on the author's long experience as a Jungian analyst the book makes compelling reading.  </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>