Bücher von KAPLAN

As the boy's world shifts between darkness and light, he faces an inner battle, confronting his deepest fears and desires. With the help of his awareness - a guiding force within him - the boy must untangle the threads of memory to find solace and understanding. Through vivid imagery and masterful storytelling, "Nighttime Father" explores the complexities of fatherhood, loss, love, and the human psyche. The novella weaves a mesmerizing tapestry of dreams and truths, ultimately leading to a revelation that surpasses the boundaries of life and death.

In this brilliant and inspirational book, Louise Kaplan draws on her own experience as a psychoanalyst as well as on art, literature, and recent history to illuminate the psychological forces that sustain the dialogue between parents and children, even after death. This dialogue -- the heartbeat of human existence -- begins with an exchange of gestures between parent and infant. Through these intimacies of everyday life, the parent transmits to the child the emotional language of his species and eventually the verbal language and symbolic communication that enable the child to participate in human culture. Once having entered into the human dialogue, we cannot live without it. The dialogue continues even after death. Using a wide variety of examples -- from the child suffering brief "separation anxiety" to children of Holocaust victims to parents coping with the lifelong grief of losing a child -- Dr. Kaplan demonstrates how to keep the voices of lost loved ones eternally alive.