ABSTRACT
I began treatment with Emmanuel Ghent, M.D. twice a week in the fall of 1994. These were momentous years for me. He was helping me contemplate a divorce after 25 years of marriage, and I had just completed my graduate studies at Columbia University at age 52 – where I was euphemistically referred to as a “mature student.” Following that, I began a four-year analytic training at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York. My work with Mannie Ghent continued for nine years until his death in 2003, when it came to an abrupt and sudden end. In the pages that follow I have relied on contemporaneous notes to capture some of the work we did together.
