Who is Francesca Oliver?

A very troubled and psychologically traumatized young woman is helped by an unorthodox psychoanalyst. The therapist is so unconventional that she scares herself. However, despite the therapist's audacious spirit, the efficacy of psychotherapy through this extraordinary relationship is demonstrated time and again. It becomes apparent that only such loving authenticity, independent and unusual though it may be on the part of the analyst, can truly motivate the analysand towards real and effective change. The reader is thrown right into the middle of their therapeutic encounter and is privy to the exchanges between these two protagonists. Joyce Myerson is an academic and literary translator from Italian. Her translations of books on medieval history as well as art and architecture (Stories of Women in the Middle Ages by Maria Teresa Brolis, A Life of Ill Repute, Public Prostitution in the Middle Ages by Maria Serena Mazzi, The Cistercian Arts, and The Evolving European City) have all been published within the last ten years. More recently she has been translating articles for psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic journals. Her translation of the book History of Countertransference: From Freud to the British Object Relations School by Alberto Stefana was published in 2017. Her translation of the book, Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy, edited by Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb and Pietro Andrea Cavaleri was published in 2023. She has recently translated Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction by Anna Maria Loiacono (July 9, 2025).