Inner Voyage
By Yves Chesni, M.D.
Translated by Joseph Zenk
153 pp., $37.50 clothbound, ISBN 978-0-931095-08-5
After a few genetic considerations, it is through a little description of my family that I will begin. The family, indeed, is the infant's natural environment. It can have a great influence on a still very malleable youngster. Then I will talk about my infancy, my youth, my mature years, and the onset of my old age. I will try not to take things out of chronological order too much, and to avoid repetitions; I will ask the reader's indulgence if he still finds a few. I will lay bare some of my plans, the wrong paths I have taken, my failures, and my achievements. I will recall certain persons whom life has given me to encounter: their trajectories are, or have been, partly like mine and partly different. I will speak of what I have been able to see of my human "brothers" during my travels, both local and abroad.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1—My Family
Chapter 2—Childhood
Chapter 3—Adolescence
Chapter 4—The First Two Years of Medicine. War. Illness.
Chapter 5—Geneva. Metaphysical Problems. Doctorate in Medicine. The Pasteur Institute. First Loves.
Chapter 6—The Glenans Archipelago. Meeting Jeanne. Hospital Assistant. Marriage. Conversion with Mental Reservations.
Chapter 7—Child Neuropsychiatry. Medical-Pedagogical Department. Confirmation. My Mother's Illness and Death. A Bad Case of the Flu.
Chapter 8—Private Office. Electroencephalography. Psychophysiological Research. Retreats: Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Benedict.
Chapter 9—New Directions. Psychoanalysis. Conflict with the Health Insurance Industry. Illness and Death of my Father.
Chapter 10—A Reassessment without much Trauma. Practice. First Book. Voyages near and far.
Chapter 11—Final Years in Geneva. Second Book. Jacobson. Chicago and London Congresses. Return to France.
Chapter 12—At Saint-Philbert. Practice. Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy. Stress.
Chapter 13—Retirement. Travels. Last Book. Summary.
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