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Coming to Life is a book that aspires to many great things. It aspires to be literary. It aspires to be inspirational. And it aspires to bring to life on the printed page the intricate emotional lives of psychotherapy patients. Unfortunately, it misses the mark on all counts.
Ironically, the chief fault of Coming to Life is that the people in it do not. Leston Havens, the book's author and well-known Harvard professor of psychiatry, takes the reader on a meandering journey through his impressions of life and the practice of