Shrink: The Autobiography of a Psychotherapist

The wild autobiographical story of Marty Obler shrink.His childhood in an extremely poor dysfunctional family; in a Jewish ghetto in Brownsville Brooklyn; head of a gang in his youth; fleeing his ghetto world to Israel; getting kicked out of a kibbutz; eventually returning to Brooklyn and storming through Brooklyn College; graduate school getting his Ph. D.; making his way in his wild fashion in a couple of counseling jobs; and finally beginning a successful practice as a psychotherapist in which he details a number of riveting case studies not the least of which is his own-more of a self-analysis. And the latter brutally (or ridiculously) honest is in a class by itself... there is almost nothing out there to compare it to.