Cadence of Vanishing: A Memoir of Love and Loss

Alice Jones MD, Discussant Annie Sweetnam, PhD, Moderator Reyna Cowan, PsyD, LCSW

Friday Nov 14, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Join us for an intimate discussion with Psychoanalyst and poet Alice Jones as she discusses her new memoir, Cadence of Vanishing. Jones’ has an unique ability to think poetically and capture images with her language. Her memoir explores her relationship with her patients and captures her deep sense of connection with her work. Set in the world of her analytic practice, Jones deeply examines four transformative years as she accompanies patients through their deepest wounds while navigating her own encounters with mortality. She weaves together elements of love and loss, as well as the work of witnessing trauma and the delicate choreography between presence and absence and all that defines human connection. In other words, Jones captures the cadence of vanishing that marks every life — how we arrive, love, and leave. In this 2nd Fridays, she reads from her new memoir and discusses writing, loss and most importantly contact. She is joined by writer and clinician Annie Sweetnam.