This collection of seven short stories interweaves humor, irony, tenderness, and pain to reveal the “inside out” of human beings—the parts seen and unseen, consciously revealed and unconsciously hidden that make us all complex characters.
About Irene Cairo: A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Irene Cairo received her medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. She is a member, training and supervising analyst, and faculty member of the Contemporary Freudian Society and a faculty member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she received her training in psychoanalysis. Her publications in the field of psychoanalysis include “My Colleague, That Other” in Psychoanalytic Dialogues (Vol. 20, 2010); “To Make the Best of a Bad Job” in The Bion Tradition, eds. H. Levine and G. Civitarese (Routledge, 2015); “The Place Across the Street” in Immigration in Psychoanalysis, Locating Ourselves, ed. J. Beltsiou (Routledge, 2016); and “Babette, Interrupted” in Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide, eds. P.L. Ellman and N.R. Goodman (Routledge, 2017). Inside-Out: Intimate Voices (IPBooks, 2022), a short story collection, is her first work of fiction. Irene has chaired discussion groups and workshops at the biannual meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association and has served as the North American Chair of the Ethics Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association. She resides in East Hampton.
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