The Frog Handled Mug

Augusto DeRosa PhD is a psychotherapist and a professor of psychology at Columbia University. Like most shrinks he thinks he has his mind pretty much figured out. At least that’s what he believed until he went to sleep one December night in 2009. Before that night he was a man driven by invisible beliefs that directed his every act. In that sense he wasn’t any different than the rest of us navigating our worlds on auto pilot. That December night switched off Augusto’s auto pilot and sent him on a search for the nature of his own psyche. The story is Augusto’s account of his psyche’s gradual metamorphosis from a mind ruled by male dominated dogma and rational linear thought to a mind driven by the feminine principles of intuition, impulse and imagination. It is a story of the plasticity of time and the multidimensional nature of space. Tom Friedman tells of the transition from left brain to right brain in his award winning book, The Earth is Flat, but Augusto never read the book. The metamorphic process leads him through a maze of confusion as habituated beliefs are challenged from every direction. The change affects every aspect of Augusto’s life, including how he addresses the problems of his colorful list of patients, his drug addicted nephew and his new love interest, Sarah Hastings.