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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In the summer when I was two-and-a-half my mother a forward-looking woman interested in the latest devel- opments and invested in raising her child took me to Clara Thompson’s institute at Vassar College designed to impart psychoanalytic wisdom to the parents of young children. Like many such experiments it was conceived with the best of intentions: the children would attend nursery school while the parents learned about child development. Though set in the midst of American society it was organized like a kibbutz: the children would live in one building or dormitory while the parents lived in another. It was an arrangement my two-year-old self could not imagine despite the careful preparation. I loved the nursery school and my teacher whose name I remember to this day but when it came to bedtime I wanted my mother not some metape- let to put me to sleep. And so at a very young age I discovered the power of voice to bring about change. Like Joshua with his trumpet at Jericho I found that by crying loud enough and long enough walls can come (LL)