Epigraph Releases Becoming Fire: A Freudian Analysts Spiritual Journey by Sally K. Severino, MD
Summary
The influential Freudian psychoanalyst possessed all the indicators of success—a big house, expensive car, designer clothes—but when she sustained three major losses in one year, she became aware of her own spiritual emptiness.But Dr. Severino’s dramatic personal odyssey also furthers the synthesis of psychology and spirituality, offering answers on how to live in the most joyous way possible—in the place where our finite minds meet our infinite souls.In some ways, what we are seeing is a failure of the American Dream,” says Dr. Sally Severino, author of Becoming Fire: A Freudian Psychoanalyst’s Spiritual Journey, just released by Epigraph Books (143 pages, 2009).The influential Freudian psychoanalyst possessed all the indicators of success—a big house, expensive car, designer clothes—but when she sustained three major losses in one year, she became aware of her own spiritual emptiness.But Dr. Severino’s dramatic personal odyssey also furthers the synthesis of psychology and spirituality, offering answers on how to live in the most joyous way possible—in the place where our finite minds meet our infinite souls.This story of an atheist who had everything, but who abandoned wealth and power to live simply as a Christian contemplative, rich in her sense of oneness with God, is an unusual one.