Lost in the Reflecting Pool: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (754 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 163152268X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A memoir and a psychological love story that is at times tender and at times horrifying, Lost in the Reflecting Pool is a chronicle of one woman?s struggle to survive within?and ultimately break free of?a relationship with a man incapable of caring about anyone beyond himself.. When Diane, a psychologist, falls in love with Charles, a charming and brilliant psychiatrist, there is laughter and flowers?and also darkness. When she is diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer, Charles is initially there for her, but his attentiveness quickly vanishes and is replaced by withdrawal, anger, and unfathomable sadism. What Diane previously thought were just Charles? controlling ways are replaced by clear pathologic narcissism and emotional abuse that turns venomous at the very hour of her greatest need. After moving through infertility treatments and t
She currently runs Healing Through Writing groups in her practice. She is a breast cancer survivor and has two wonderful grown children. . She has done extensive work in the area of trauma and child abuse and research in the area of personality development of abused children. Diane Pomerantz is a clinical psychologist who has been in practice working w
As it often happens, physical illness descends on her while she is in the midst of confounding marital upheaval. Mandel, author of the New York Times bestseller Replacement Child?Lost in the Reflecting Pool is an intense, true story about how an intelligent woman is sucked into a marriage that slowly becomes abusive?not physically, but emotionally and mentally. A step at a time, she loses her sense of herself and her autonomy, until she begins to fight to reclaim her independence and self-worth. Her epilogue uniquely ties the narrative together, not with pain and blame, but with beauty and love of life. A riveting, bold, and tender portrait of a woman surviving cancer and m