A Different Path: An Emotional Autobiography

by Neville Symington

An engaging book that charts the turbulent journey from childhood to adulthood of a well-known psychoanalyst.

"Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my having lived in it?"

Neville Symington has written a dozen books about psychoanalysis but this one is different from all the others. It is an emotional autobiography that starts with his own birth and gives a character sketch of his mother and father and his upbringing in Portugal, with a two year period in Canada, and takes the reader through to the age of 45 by which time he was a qualified psychoanalyst, married with two sons and, at the time, living in London.

This sounds like the story of a peaceful journey from childhood through to his chosen career in adulthood. However, the author takes the reader through the period of his earlier career in the Church in a parish in the East End of London and the turbulent period of change that led him to take leave of this first career, seek psychoanalysis and finally to become a psychoanalyst himself.

This is an engaging book that charts the emotional storms and the ups and downs that beset the life's journey of a well-known psychoanalyst.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912573571
• ISBN13: 9781912573578
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Sphinx Books
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"