Madness or Knowing the Unbearable Truth A Psychoanalytic Journey in Search of Sanity Tova Zaltz

Part I: Creating a safe place inside

1. In the beginning – a stone

2. Separating inside from outside

3. Take out the badness, I want to be loved

4. From dead ends to DID1

5. An alternative way to communicate: Written language

6. How can I know that we are real?

7. The story of incest: Keeping it all in the family

8. The danger of the good object

9. On incest, blindness and paranoia

10. The hospital dream: A place to bring the madness

11. The silence is not to be battled – but understood

12. The death of Dad: Loneliness

13. On pimps and prostitution

14. When trauma has no witness

Part II: Living the past in the present: dying, to get somewhere

15. Enactment instead of memory

16. From “hanging the doll” to “death by hanging”

17. The cult dream

18. Alice in Horrorland

19. The mysterious garden

Part III: From inside to outside: choosing life

20. Thou shalt not tell

21. From pregnancy to birth