Sights and Sounds of My Yesterworld

Book excerpt: Therapy. Cosmo. Oprah. Judge Judy. A complete makeover ... and you're still searching for the path to true love. You always knew it didn't run smooth; but you're beginning to wonder if the path is there at all. It's there. You just need a good guidebook. And now it's here: the crystallized wisdom of the ages. Short. Funny. Concise. Bedrock. In precise pithy pages. After all, if you've tried everything else, you don't have time to waste. If you have been looking for love in all the wrong places, or if you're looking and don't want to waste time, this is what you need to know: '...[a] wonderful little book. ... This guidebook is at once witty and profound, playful and practical...replete with cogent observations and ... wisdom. [It is] founded on solid concepts of adaptability, maturation, and maturity, and the differentiation of reality from wish-fulfilling fantasy and narcissistic object choice.' -Bertram A. Ruttenberg, M.D., Psychoanalyst '...[A] readable style...[an] absence of psychobabble...[it is] short and to the point. ... She's right on target. ... A good companion piece to counseling or psychotherapy.' -A mother and experienced psychotherapist 'I wish [my daughter] had read this 10 or 15 years ago.' -A mother 'A set of remarkably witty, insightful and helpful observations on romantic love, its promises and its hazards. Recommended for both the gratified and the frustrated.' -Mortimer Ostow, M.D., P.C., Psychoanalyst