Shrinkwrapped
My First Fifty Years on the Couch
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Shrinkwrapped
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Narrated by:
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I. Michael Grossman
About this listen
Perhaps the world’s longest coming-of-age story, Shrinkwrapped shows how one man’s search for a better life worked—at last.
In a blue-collar Michigan town where corporal punishment was seen as positive parenting, troubled families rarely sought professional help. But Michael Grossman’s teachers sent him to see a Freudian psychoanalyst at age 7. It was the first of a parade of therapies that would include Rogerian bear-hugs, Gestalt dream analysis, Rolfing, Bioenergetics and even LSD.
Sitting beside Michael on a succession of “shrinks’” couches, the listener follows his progress through one defense after another until he finally achieves a joyful capacity to care for others. Untangling the complex, sometimes eccentric and other times abusive family relationships that enmeshed his Midwestern boyhood in the mid-20th century, the author finally faces fundamental truths that lead to a profound transformation.
By turns funny, poignant and shocking, Shrinkwrapped is a story of hope, of growing insight and ultimately of love reborn.
©2014 I. Michael Grossman (P)2025 I. Michael Grossman