Irmgard's Flute: A Memoir: A True Story of an Impossible Love
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- Publisher : The Masters Publishing
- Published : January 2007
- Cover : Hardback
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 26032
- ISBN 13 : 9780979548505
- ISBN 10 : 0979548500
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In March 1945, American Lieutenant Bernard Bail was shot down on his twenty-fifth flying mission over Germany. Seriously wounded and taken as a prisoner of war, Lt. Bail was brought to a hospital where during his recovery the impossible happened: he and a young German nurse fell in love. Irmgard risked her life - as well as his - slipping poems and letters beneath his pillow each night. The haunting notes from Irmgard's flute play vividly in his mind, and the poems and letters Irmgard left for him sent him on a journey of the spirit for over six decades, moulding his life and deepening his soul. This true story of a young World War II Air Force officer who became a distinguished psychoanalyst also illuminates the journey of a brilliant mind at the deepest levels of self-exploration. A complex and profoundly moving book, "Irmgard's Flute" memorializes a many-faceted love, one that truly transcends time, place, personality and nationality.
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If one has not fought for one's life, then one may not know what it is to have a real life.
- Bernard W. Bail, M.D.
Dr Bernard W. Bail is a physician, a psychoanalyst and a training analyst who lives and practices in Beverly Hills, California. For his military service
during World War II, he received the Distinguished Service Cross, three Distinguished Flying Crosses, five Air Medals, five Battle Stars in the European Theater of Operations, a Purple Heart, and a Prisoner of War Medal. In addition, the French government awarded him the French Légion d'honneur, the highest military honour bestowed by France.
Dr Bail is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American
Psychoanalytic Association where he chairs the ongoing discussion group "Infant Mental Life and the Dream in Psychoanalysis." Through his intensive work in the unconscious via the dream, Dr Bail developed a new paradigm for psychoanalysis centred at the beginning of human life, which he describes in his book "The Mother's Signature: A Journal of Dreams" (catalogue no. 26033).
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