Joan Cusack Handler is a poet and memoirist, and a psychologist in clinical practice. Her poems have been widely published and have received awards from The Boston Review and five Pushcart nominations. More ยป
With this blog, I'm joining my lives, my loves: my profession as a poet and also as a psychologist. My belief in the psyche and the unconscious and the ways each get played out in our lives-with ourselves, with spouses, parents, children, friends.
In Orphans, poet psychologist Joan Cusack Handler explores our most primitive and essential relationships โ those with our parents โ our aging parents โ particularly the intense ambivalence that stems from the truth of their impending death.
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