Come Closer

What keeps us from having the relationships we want? Why can’t we find the right partner? Why do we repeat the same painful patterns? How can we keep love alive? The children we once were live inside us, and our early relationships are the templates for our later emotional and sexual attractions. Although they try to protect us, they are also the source of our relational struggles, awakening our fears and longings, and constructing our love life, often without our permission. Diving deep into patients’ intimate lives, as well as her own, here psychoanalyst Dr Galit Atlas exposes our most private desires, unmet needs, yearnings and pain. Through her intricate portrayal of lives as complex as our own, we uncover the frightened child, the shameful child, the gifted child, the guilty child and the melancholic child, and are gifted a nuanced understanding of the link between our childhood wounds and our adult love. By inviting our childhood selves to have a seat at the table, we learn to work through our past instead of playing it out in our relationships. This therapeutic journey is an emotional, multi-dimensional understanding of intimacy, offering a transformative path to healing.