Graphotherapy

About the Book

This is the history of a self-analysis which teaches by candid example - please refer to the Preface - on how to analyze yourself by writing.

A psychoanalyst - psychiatrist goes to town.

About the Author

Maria Moulton-Barrett, M.D. has practiced Medicine through the application of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis for some 50 years (!). She was trained in Psychoanalysis as a student of Karen Horney in New York City at the New School (then named The New School for Social Research), where she studied with the Gestalt Psychologists Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Koehler, and with the anthropologist Claude Levy-Strauss. She was in training analysis with Dr. Charles Baudouin while she studied for her medical degree in Geneva, Switzerland.

She interned at French Hospital and worked at the LI Home, in N.Y. as a psychiatrist and then proceeded to work for years for the New York State Mental Hygiene Department's State Hospital system. In 1965 she was finally able to establish, until recently, a private practice in psychiatry in Binghamton, NY, a Central NY community, usually referred to as part of Upstate New York.

She was able to contribute to the training in Psychiatry of Syracuse University's medical students. At Binghamton University's Women's Study Department she offered undergraduates an immediate experience in the practice of Psychoanalysis. She taught them certain aspects of its history and application by writing through Graphotherapy, finding that this type of writing is on the whole an original contribution to ways of exploring the unconscious in search of one's truer self.