By Bonnie Friedman
''Compulsively readable.'' Francine Prose, O: The Oprah journal The Thief of Happiness is the tale of a seven yr treatment among the writer and the mysterious Dr. Sing—a remedy that used to be half cult of 2, half appeal, and half love tale. In an age whilst the nice and refined presents of remedy are downplayed in desire of psychopharmacology, Friedman has written the main distinct and shiny portrayal but of what truly is going on among therapist and sufferer. ''[S]trangely profound. . . . [an writer] with a good eye for detail.'' —Joshua Wolf Shenk, The Washington put up ''[E]xcellent within the method H.D.'s [Tribute to Freud] is: it illuminates the tricky, murky dating among remedy and actual existence . . . Friedman is at her most sensible while relaying the delicately nuanced exchanges that happen among the sufferer and therapist. . . . The booklet may perhaps, like Anne Lamott's chicken through fowl, advance a cult following.'' —Publishers Weekly ''The memoir is typically disregarded as a style for the self-absorbed and self-pitying, but The Thief of Happiness is neither. . . . a powerful accomplishment and an excellent addition to the prevailing literature on therapy.'' —Carmela Ciuraru, ahead
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Now she restored my clarity. She let me know that the shards of leaves that chased my heels on the streets meant something, clattering their cocoon bodies, scrabbling like spirit-mice, like her own rattling knife-blade skirts pursuing me. And slowly I understood why I’d gotten stuck, why in the middle of my life my feet sank into cement. I could not become the successful woman I dreamt I’d be and remain the girl I was. I could not leave myself everywhere and also accrue. I could not shuck myself continually and gather my strength.
She sounded so sad. ’’ Harriet tucked a loose hank of dark hair behind her ear. ’’ I nodded. ‘‘But it seemed to make my mother feel abandoned. ’’ I nodded. ’’ But my mind had skipped ahead. I was thinking how wonderful my parents had been to me, that night in the Bronx. My father had in the gold star room 53 ■ driven my mother and me to the Cross County Shopping Center. He’d sat outside the fitting room at Wanamaker’s on a black leatherette bench while I tried on clothes and then stepped outside to show him.
Okay. ’’ I did, trailing quilts, and leaving the door ajar so I could hear Paul and the TV. Booknotes was on. ’’ ‘‘He always asks that,’’ I shouted. I came back in, dragging my quilts. ‘‘I thought you were going to sleep. ’’ shangri-la 35 ■ ‘‘Okay,’’ I said, a little hurt, and trailed back off to bed. I told Dr. Sing all this. She nodded, leaning her head, chewing the top of her pen. She was an Anita saying yes to everywhere my subway car stopped, and if my willow unfurled aspen leaves, she didn’t object.
