All That and so Much More: A Memoir

At its core, Bernice Schaefer’s memoir is a work of growth and development, from a sixteen-year-old to a highly respected psychologist and marriage and family therapist. She shares her exquisite pleasure of growing up in New York City as a starstruck “groupie.” She marries and reluctantly moves to Connecticut, where she singlemindedly educates and trains herself in multiple disciplines.

We see her frailties, her uncertainties, and her vulnerabilities. Relationships transpose over time, and what may have worked at the beginning changes as she matures and situations alter. Her own power, her strengths, and her internal resources enable her to become self-sufficient.