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Barbra Streisand has been a show business staple for decades, from Funny Girl and Hello, Dolly! to The Way We Were and, more recently, the Fockers franchise. Whether gracing a stage, screen, or album cover, Barbra's iconic silhouette is a globally-familiar image. We know Barbra the star, but how well do we know Barbra the woman?
In Dr. Alma H. Bond's latest installment of her On the Couch series, Dr. Darcy Dale―a renowned New York City psychiatrist whose expertise has been sought by such larger-than-life women as Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and Hillary Clinton―is confronted by Barbra, dismayed after 30 years of minimally successful therapy. Over the course of a year, Dr. Dale conducts an intimate psychoanalysis, breaking through ego, defense mechanisms, and repressions to go deep into the heart and mind of one of America's last remaining superstars.
| |  | | Hillary Clinton: On the Couch
Hillary Clinton comes to famed psychoanalyst Dr. Darcy Dale for psychoanalysis. In telling the story of her life to Dr. Dale, the doctor is able to help Hillary come to terms with Bill's womanizing, and to proceed with her reach to the White House.
In the fourth installment of her On the Couch series, famed female biographer Dr. Alma Bond looks inside the head and life of presidential frontrunner and informs voters what she s found.
| |  | | Jackie O: On the Couch
Jackie O: On the Couch is the second of Alma's "On the Couch" series to be published. It is a look inside the mind and life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. The book delves into Jackie’s childhood, and illuminates how she became the person she was. It also explores JFK’s background and the ways it affected his marriage. Jackie’s deep love for Jack, the cat and mouse game he played before their engagement, his early inattentiveness, along with details of his outrageous womanizing, and their happier times at the White House follows. A poignant description of Jack’s assassination and funeral is recounted.
The book also looks into the widow Jackie’s need for Aristotle Onassis. She debunks the idea that she married Ari purely for his money, and discloses previously unknown graphic details of her sexual awakening. The joyful early years and the gradual collapse of the marriage is described.
Jackie’s successful entry into the publishing world, and how the work helped to define her follows. A new Jackie emerges, which allows her to form the best relationship of her life, with the elderly, stout, and adoring Maurice Templesman, who gave her the love, devotion, and constancy she never received before. The book follows the progress of the non-Hodgkins Lymphoma disease that led to Jackie’s death at age 63, from her fierce denial to the gradual acceptance that she would not survive.
| |  | | Marilyn Monroe: On the Couch
The story of Marilyn Monroe’s the fictionalized psychoanalysis with Dr. Darcy Dale, famous New York psychoanalyst. Marilyn reveals her life story to the doctor, who provides insight as to how the facts of Marilyn’s early life contributed to her emotional illness. The book also illuminates the gradually deepening relationship between doctor and patient, and how it led to Marilyn’s growth as a woman and great actress
i>Marilyn Monroe: On the Couch /i>is the story of Marilyn Monroe’s the fictionalized psychoanalysis with Dr. Darcy Dale, famous New York psychoanalyst. In the book, Marilyn reveals her life story to the doctor, who provides insight as to how the facts of Marilyn’s early life contributed to her emotional illness. The book also illuminates the gradually deepening relationship between doctor and patient, and how it led to Marilyn’s growth as a woman and great actress. Her three marriages are discussed in detail, and make clear why none of them were successful. The book is h | |  | | Meryl Streep: On the Couch
Meryl Streep comes to Dr. Darcy Dale, a psychoanalyst, for treatment. She comes not because she is ill but because she is cast as a psychoanalyst in her next film, and wishes to learn from a pro what it is like.
| |  | | Michelle Obama: A Biography
The life and mind of Michelle Obama
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