An Accident of Hope The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton 1st Edition by Dawn Skorczewski ISBN 113684712X 9781136847127

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ISBN 10: 113684712X

ISBN 13: 9781136847127

Author:  Dawn M. Skorczewski 

An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton 1st Edition: 

In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton would blossom into a world-famous poet, best known for her “confessional” poems dealing with personal subjects not often represented in poetry at that time: mental illness, depression, suicide, sex, abortion, women’s bodies, and the ordinary lives of mothers and housewives. Orne audiotaped the last three years of her therapy to facilitate her ability to remember their sessions. The final six months of these tapes are the focus of this book.

In An Accident of Hope, Dawn Skorczewski links the content of the therapy with poetry excerpts, offering a rare perspective on the artist’s experience and creative process. We can see Sexton attempting to make sense of her life and therapy and to sustain her confidence as a major poet, while struggling with the impending loss of Orne, who was moving elsewhere. Skorczewski’s study provides an intimate, in-depth view of the therapy of a psychologically tortured yet immensely creative woman, during a period of emerging feminism and cultural change. Tracing the mutual development of the poet and the therapist during their years together, the author explores the An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton 1st Editionion between the classical therapeutic setting as practiced in the early 1960s and contemporary relational and developmental concepts in psychoanalysis, just then beginning to emerge.

An Accident of Hope also raises broader questions about the nature of healing in psychotherapy. The poet and therapist we encounter in these sessions present complex and conflicted images of the therapeutic and creative process. Orne, equal parts honesty and hesitancy, works to bolster Sexton’s self-image and maintain that she is more than the sum of her poetry. Sexton, working against a tendency to hide from her most painful feelings, valiantly pushes to tell the truth in therapy, while her poems invite the readers to see another side of the story.

Just as Orne kept the audiotapes so that one day they might help others who suffer, An Accident of Hope tells the story of a therapy but moves beyond it. By offering a glimpse into the past, the present is open for reappraisal, both of Sexton herself and the legacy of psychoanalytic treatment.

 

An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton 1st Edition Table of contents:

You, I, We Created the Poet (November 1963)

• November 14, 1963: “I Mean, We Can Really Talk!”
• November 19, 1963: The Announcement
• November 21, 1963

Did Anne Sexton Kill John F. Kennedy? (Late November 1963)

Holding Hands and Letting Go—The Road to “Flee on Your Donkey” (December 10–12, 1963)

• December 10, 1963
• December 12, 1963

This Terrible Ideal of the Happy Family (December 14–19, 1963)

• December 14, 1963: “He’s Going to Kill Me!”
• December 17, 1963: “Old Dwarf Heart”
• December 19, 1963

Dancing for Your Doctor—Notes on Narcissism (December 21–24, 1963)

• December 21, 1963
• December 24, 1963

The Black Pants and the New Bikini—Oedipal Scripts (February–March 1964)

• February 29, 1964: “I’d Like to Title a Book Called Fuck You!”
• March 3, 1964
• March 5, 1964
• March 12, 1964

The Discovery of a Human Being (April 21–28, 1964)

• April 21, 1964: Unraveling
• April 23, 1964
• April 25, 1964
• April 28, 1964

Flash Forward—An Epilogue (July 1964–February 1965)

 

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