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Lucy Daniels, a writer and clinical psychologist, is the founder of a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering emotional and creative freedom through education, outreach, and psychoanalytic treatment and research, and of a psychoanalytically oriented Center for Early Childhood.
Hospitalized for severe anorexia nervosa between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, she credits psychoanalysis with freeing her from both chronic anorexia nervosa and a debilitating writer's block. Now a prolific writer, she has recently produced two books published at the same time that are related. Dreaming Your Way to Creative Freedom offers a road map for others to use in recognizing shortcomings in creative work and becoming able to observe in dreams the unconscious conflicts that require such shortcomings. The Eyes of the Father is her first novel since Caleb, My Son, a best-seller that won her a Guggenheim Fellowship in literature less than a year after her release from the hospital in 1956.
A gripping story, The Eyes of the Father tells of people who transcend the dead-ends of their past, their gender, and their ethnicity to fashion their own unique—possibly creative—individuality. Its title derives from a verse of William Blake:
This life's dim windows of the soulDistorts the heavens from pole to poleAnd leads you to believe a lieWhen you see with, not through, the eye.
One learns that forms of slavery include different ways of being held hostage to the past. Also, that slavishness—whether here to the