1st Edition
The Dreams of Mabel Dodge Diary of an Analysis with Smith Ely Jelliffe
Acknowledgments Foreword by Peter Rudnytsky Prelude by Paul Lippmann Author’s Preface Introduction 01. Mabel Dodge 02. Smith Ely Jelliffe 03. Mabel Dodge in Psychoanalysis with Smith Ely Jelliffe 04. Cast of Characters 05. The Dreams of Mabel Dodge Appendices Appendix A. Mabel Dodge, "Mabel Dodge Writes About the Unconscious," The New York Journal, 1917 Appendix B. Mabel Dodge, "A Game of Cards—Hearts," Psychoanalytic Review, 1918
Biography
Patricia R. Everett is a psychologist in private practice in Amherst, Massachusetts and the author of Corresponding Lives: Mabel Dodge Luhan, A.A. Brill, and the Psychoanalytic Adventure in America (Karnac, 2016) and A History Of Having A Great Many Times Not Continued To Be Friends: The Correspondence Between Mabel Dodge and Gertrude Stein, 1911–1934 (University of New Mexico Press, 1996). Since 1983, she has researched the Mabel Dodge Luhan archives at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
"History comes alive, as we are drawn into the dream life of Mabel Dodge, an articulate woman who played a significant role in the history of psychoanalysis in America. It is 1916 and we listen as she recounts dreams and associations to her analyst, Smith Ely Jelliffe, and he responds. Through impeccable scholarship and priceless historical documentation, Patricia Everett contextualizes a psychoanalytic adventure. Unconscious meets conscious, patient meets analyst, and reader meets author, as this fascinating story unfolds. Patricia Everett gives us privileged access to their exciting, spirited, even thrilling interplay as they explore a realm of dreams." - Sandra Buechler, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, author of Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living (Routledge, 2019)
"If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I’d find it hard to believe that such a book actually exists. Everett presents us with the dreams of Mabel Dodge, recorded during her analysis with Smith Ely Jelliffe, one of the most influential and creative of the first American psychoanalysts. We are whisked, as if by a time machine, deep into a lost world of a century ago. And what is revealed is the inner life of an extraordinary woman, the contours of the American avant-garde, of which she was a central figure, and the workings of psychoanalysis in an early, crucial period of its history." - James William Anderson, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University
