1971 was the year Dina Glouberman went mad. Now, for the first time, Dr. Dina Glouberman, psychotherapist and author, co-founder of the world–famous Skyros Holidays, creator of Imagework therapy, and author of The Joy of Burnout, writes with candour and humour about this experience in her new memoir, Into the Woods and Out Again: A memoir of love, madness and transformation. 

In this remarkable book which she is launching today, she traces her journey from her wild, intense, and unforgettable months on a psychiatric ward, through five years of “normal” life, and then onto thirteen years of extraordinary creativity, including the co-founding of the world-famous Skyros holidays and the creation of Imagework therapy and personal development. This inspiring memoir invokes the essence of a remarkable time and place by a woman who dared to make her dreams a reality.

Bringing together the skills of a psychotherapist and the humour of a New York Jewish woman, Dina will be talking about her experience of madness, making sense of what seems irrational, and showing what were the key elements of her healing process. She will also show why this was such an enlivening and enlightening period, and demonstrate the deep interconnectedness of madness, spirit, community, and the imagination. It is the inner story of a woman who has played a major role in the contemporary holistic and therapeutic world.