Blurred Boundaries: My Therapist, My Friend

These fuzzy journal entries attempt to convey one woman's transformation through therapy, but instead they blur into a jumble of different therapeutic methods. Miller's first therapist acted unprofessionally by befriending her outside of the office. This led to a depressive crisis that Miller refers to as the ``Dark Night of My Soul,'' during which she heard voices and thought she would die. After preparing a grievance complaint that she never acted on, Miller changed therapists but continued to be haunted. She details psychological treatises and self-help books consulted, such as An Adult Child's Guide to What's ``Normal , '' and provides an overview of Jungian analysis. There are also descriptions of a John Bradshaw workshop and of 12-step meetings for children of alcoholics and other codependents, a delineation of her voices or ``chorus''--which includes one man she has named Vincent after a character on the TV series Beauty and the Beast --and passages in which she debates her therapist's suggestion that she is ``gifted.'' The brief sections provided to tie the journal entries together chronologically do little to move the action forward. Miller dedicates this work to her inner child. (July)