Broken Fathers / Broken Sons

• PrefaceRemembering HumptyCarmelite PassageFinding A VoiceMother EarthTalking MemoriesRunningInterlude (Of Elephants and Kings)BridgesHolding DreamsDancing with GodThe Dreaming KnightGrieving LilacsFinding My FatherMemory and TimeEnd ThoughtsEpilogueAppendix (Poems For Late Night Reading)

"After reading this potent, poignant and moving, beautifully written memoir, we appreciate what the meaning is of the psychoanalytic idea of placing emphasis on remembering." – in: The Psychoanalytic Review 96/5 (October 2009)"Broken Fathers/Broken Sons is a rare combination of memoir and musing. Playful and wise, it is an ode to what is broken inside all of us, as well as to what seeks healing....it allows us to put back together both questions and quests, as we journey out of a decade of looking for a better father in God in a Carmelite monastery, into psychoanalytic practice. Out of one man’s coming to terms with the damage of a painful father/son relationship, comes a poignant and fierce cry against inequality, be it between parent and child, or analyst and patient." – Erika Duncan, novelist, founder of Herstory Writers Workshop"In this intensely personal and humane memoir Dr. Gargiulo plumbs the depths of relationships between a father and a son. Not since Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons have these issues been so keenly examined and so directly held up to scrutiny. The precepts of psychoanalytic thought brought forward by Gargiulo speak to everyman in this book that merits a place on one’s bookshelf next to the work of the great Russian novelist." – Norman Itzkowitz, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University