ABSTRACT

The author presents women's realities, perceptions, and experiences within the therapeutic environment. It explores women's first-person experiences with the mental health establishment. A women suffering with mental health disease puts down the nurturing on which she thrived before the constriction of psychoanalyst's negating therapeutic touch. It explains that the women put down her honors, snatching away all the hunches on which she might grow, and bloom. The author spends much time in the training learning about institutional structures, and theraupies offer a support and insights into a painful personal world. Under prejudicial auspices, setting she up for the MMPI profile of people choice, an ideal frame for that feigned image psychoanalyst's tainted of patient, stretching on a canvas of her skin and bone, that most flagrant denial of this self psychoanalyst do not choose to see or to believe.