The Regulars' Table

From Chapter 1: Ten years ago I was a psychoanalyst in a beautiful coastal community. Often I was struck by an awareness of the abyss between the beauty of my surroundings and the gulag of my interior world. How I became aware of these feelings why they were such important signals and what they ultimately revealed to me provided the genesis for this book. There were a multitude of personal questions as to why I had these feelings. What was my cultural context as I practiced and lived? My subjective experience as a psychoanalyst in this gulag? The Siberia-like experience did not have much in common with life by the sea. But then one part of psychoanalysis is about what is beneath that surface.-----Science or fiction poetry or facts? It is all this. With Christina Griffin we embark on the atmosphere of a historic migration trail departing from a tiny geographical place in central Europe which leads us over the Ocean. It is the journey of a conquest of the north-atlantic world by the 20th centurys Budapest culture - intertwined with Psychoanalysis in an embrace bringing innovative ideas and different sensibilities to the New Continent. Among them: love closeness understanding and tolerance as a message. This volume lets you feel the atmosphere of a fairytale which could become reality.Andre E. Haynal M.D.