Gerald Gargiulo is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. He joined APsaA through the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). He is located in Stamford, Connecticut, where he practices psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and couples therapy. His Ph.D. is from Foundation House, Oxford, England, 2003, and he graduated from The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, New York City, in 1970.
It's not the leavingthat it's about.about leavingthere is noabout.It's about the silence,like a monotonously sleeping sea,quiet to the eyescan we leave that way?That way, non-existence hasno argument with us.we trouble it notdisturbing with our memorieswhat cannot be disturbed.No wonder we come againagain to learnit's not about the leavingbut leaving not troublednot troubling the quietemptinesswhich yearns to rememberuswith no trouble at all.
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