From the Unconscious

Shelley Galasso Bonanno is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Birmingham and Utica, Michigan. She has been practicing psychotherapy for 23 years. Bonanno is a psychotherapy associate member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, an associate member of the American Psychological Association/Division 39, a psychotherapy member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society, and a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She attended graduate school at Wayne State University where she received a master of arts degree. Her interest in writing poetry began as an adolescent. She later returned to writing poetry as a result of feeling inspired by her own experiences as a psychoanalytic psychotherapy patient. Her poem, “The Time Machine,” reflects the depth and importance of the transference experience expressed in the metaphor of a time-altering mirror: As analysts, we see how these fantasies play out clinically and organize transference in a timeless way in both psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. The more immersing and intense the experience can become, the more powerful and permeable the mirror can be.

THE TIME MACHINE