Meredith Sabini is a licensed psychologist and psychotherapy Associate member of APsaA. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, and was an analytic candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco. Sabini is a founding director of the Dream Institute of Northern California and has a specialty in dream consultation.
Her essays have appeared in numerous publications including Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics and the Journal of Analytical Psychology. Her poetry has been published in both journals and anthologies, including Anima, Chrysalis, and Salt Journal.
Sabini writes with an appealing sense of humor that is at the same time direct and wry. She creates a sense of allowing the reader in on the joke early but then spins it out to a punchy finish. The results are witty, knowing contrasts that engage one's sense of irony regarding issues of development.
We've all hated our bodiesFive generations nowIt's the tie that binds usHow could we not?Mother's scourge is a melanin patchMelted across her shoulder like a Hershey barI love to touch the ruddy blotch.One sister thinks she's too thinHigh collars and long sleeves hide skimpy fleshThe other thinks she's too plumpPulls sweatshirts over zoftig lumps.I came out an athletic shapeHips too small, waist too largeLacking a graceful lumbar curve.After years on the analytic couchI shed this heritage of shameAnd with it twenty pounds.And dreamed my grandmother was alive againPlaying the piano in her altogether.
I grew up insidemy mother's girdleLatex-spandexby generic nameDamned if I eversaw it stretch.
The poem, “Reclamation,” published in TAP Vol. 41, No. 1, was by David Garfield, M.D.
Sheri Butler Hunt, M.D., is a candidate at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in the adult training program and a graduate analyst in the child division. A published poet and member of TAP's editorial board, she welcomes readers' comments and suggestions at .