Our Time is Up: A Novel by Roberta Satow

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The novel is compelling and engaging. The narrative is daring, bold, courageous, and, necessarily, delightfully character-driven. Roberta Satow offers the reader the process of her personal journey of becoming a psychoanalyst. What does that process entail? Each psychoanalyst’s journey is unique, befitting the very nature of psychoanalysis, and yet each unique journey shares something in common with every other psychoanalytic journey – it is deeply personal. Thus, Satow’s novel/memoir  exploring her own journey must involve describing her own personal issues, her own psychoanalysis, her feelings about, and relationship with, her psychoanalyst, and, ultimately, while working with her supervisor,  the process of conducting psychoanalysis with people referred to her while she was attending a psychoanalytic institute. –From the review by Merle Molofsky of Our Time is Up.

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“This book is a treasure: a memoirlike novel that captures an era, an ethos, and a sociopolitical sensibility through the eyes of a young woman struggling with autonomy, guilt, sexuality, and grief in the late 1960s. Both patients and therapists will recognize their own struggles in this depiction of Rose’s gradual blossoming in the sunlight of her analyst’s honesty, integrity, and devotion. I know of no other work that  conveys analytic treatment, training, and passion so intimately and in such a pitchperfect voice.”
—NANCY MCWILLIAMS, PHD, ABPP, Emerita Visiting Professor, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology

“Our Time is Up is a profoundly moving dive into the nuance and beauty of the psychoanalytic relationship. Written with humor, compassion and an intimate understanding of the analytic process, the book shows love and loss and the true boundaries of time. I loved it!”
—VICTORIA MILLS, Psychoanalyst and Documentary filmmaker

“Our Time Is Up is a frank and refreshing fictionalized account of how a person comes, through psychoanalysis, to sit in the psychoanalyst’s chair herself. It is the important and deeply personal story of an interior journey.”
—LEE PHILLIPS, Psychoanalyst

Rose Winer is having panic attacks about a man climbing in the window and raping her. Returning to New York from Berkeley, where free love is rampant, she hopes that sleeping in her parents’ house will make her feel safe. When that doesn’t work, she begins psychoanalysis.

Through her turbulent relationship with her analyst, Joan Wiseman, Rose’s life is changed forever. She is transformed from a wounded, angry, and insecure girl to a happily married psychoanalyst and university professor. But when her critical mother has a stroke and Joan gets cancer, all of Rose’s progress is put to the test.

Part fiction, part memory, this book is an intimate look at psychoanalysis through the eyes of a patient and an analyst, based on Roberta Satow’s experience as both.

While there are many books about transference and countertransference in psychoanalysis, this book illustrates the depth of the connection between the patient and analyst, their experience of each other, and the curative effects of that relationship for both of them.

ROBERTA SATOW, PHD has been a practicing psychoanalyst for 35 years. She is a senior member of the faculty and control analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Her books are Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even if They Didn’t Take Care of You (Tarcher/Penguin 2006), and the novel Two Sisters of Coyoacan.