Not everyone wants to light up the sky like a flame. The daughter of Erik H. Erikson had to learn to reconcile the public view of her father as a pioneering intellectual with the complex, insecure man whom she knew. Learn about her dysfunctional family through her own eyes, in a memoir enriched by her own psychoanalytic training. Fame, she argues, is not the emotional panacea that we imagine it to be. "Emotionally stinging, intellectually acute."—Booklist