
This intimate account of a successful analysis illustrates the innovative approach of the analyst, Paul Diel. The anonymous author of the journal was a forty-year-old man beset by anxiety and obsessed with his failures, resentments, fantasies, and disappointments. He was drawn...

From the introduction by Paul Diel: "This personal diary of a psychoanalytic patient illustrates a method of healing which, unlike retrospection and pansexuality, is based on the study of inner motivations... Considering that the search for truth, especially the truth about oneself,...