Come CloserCome Closer

"What are the fears and anxieties that keep us from being intimate? Why can't we find the right partner? How can we preserve the love we have? And how do we trust others in a world filled with uncertainties? In Come Closer, Dr. Galit Atlas uses a psychoanalytic perspective to answer these questions. Diving deep into her patients' intimate lives, as well as her own, she looks into our most private desires, unmet needs, and debilitating pain, and offers an honest and nuanced understanding of the link between our childhood wounds and our adult love. We all have an inner child: one that was invisible, frightened, shamed, gifted, guilty, or struggled with early loss. They whisper in our ears, awaken our fears and longings, try to protect us from pain, and construct our love life-often without our permission. It is only by inviting our childhood selves to have a seat at the table, by welcoming their voices, that we can work through our past instead of playing it out in our intimate relationships. Come Closer is a therapeutic journey that offers a path to personal growth as well as a reflective experience to anyone who is willing to listen deeply to the stories of others and to learn the ways those stories are also their own. Dr. Galit Atlas how pain can be transformed into power, and the uncovering of old scenarios becomes the discovering of new relational possibilities"--