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Femaleness, Fecundity and their Psychic Reach with Rosemary Balsam, MD

Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch

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I Was Influenced by Florence Nightingale

I always was taught in medical school It's really the person and how they live their lives and what their environment is That you can't just take the body and the sickness out of the whole environment So I think that I was influenced by being taught in those ways um And I I loved it. I was Maybe I wanted to do medicine for a long time. My mother was A big influence, I guess um She was a very interesting terrific person actually and very She was an old nurse In the sense of being kind of like Florence Nightingale practically But she also did her midwifery and gankology in The Rotunda Hospital in Dublin,. which was the the major European Center in

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