From the Unconscious

Nathan M. Simon is a training and supervising analyst at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. His medical training was at Washington University, residency at Yale, and he was the director of psychiatry at Jewish Hospital in St. Louis for 16 years. He received his analytic training at the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago. He is in private practice in St. Louis, teaches at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and the St. Louis University Medical School, and is the director of the Schiele Clinic at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.

Simon's interest in literature and poetry has unfolded over his lifetime. He has written on a wide variety of subjects, which include: therapeutic abortion, heart disease, adoption, health-care delivery, and a book on psychological stress in intensive care units. Some of his poetry will be published in Friends of Acadia and New Millennium Writings.

Simon creates a delightful, earthy bridge between natural, everyday scenes and the events of the mind. With humor or a tightly woven image (as in his haikus) he evokes a sense in the reader that he or she knows these scenes and feelings, too. The result is a poetic déjà vu; a feeling of something in common with the author, and an easy entree to his writing.