The Most Beautiful Place in the World - Author Judith Mitrani

Many of us dream about retiring abroad, or about living our final years unencumbered with worry in some beautiful location in a far off land, but today’s guest, author and doctor Judith Mitrani has done exactly that.

Many of us dream about retiring abroad, or about living our final years unencumbered with worry in some beautiful location in a far off land, but today’s guest, author and doctor Judith Mitrani has done exactly that. Her memoir, “The Most Beautiful Place in the World: A Memoir of a Psychoanalyst and the Realization of a State of Mind”, is the story of her life and career as a world-renowned psychoanalyst living first in Los Angeles, and now Paris where she resides with her husband, Ted.

We asked Judith to talk to us about her career, first as a breeder of Arabian Horses turned Psychoanalyst, and now as an author living in Paris. We wanted to find out how she and her husband made their beautiful dream a reality, especially after having gotten a late start on their plan. We also wanted to know more about the realization that Judith arrived at while penning her memoir; that the most beautiful place in the world isn’t really a place at all, but rather a state of mind.

Links for this episode:

"The Most Beautiful Place in the World: A Memoir of a Psychoanalyst and the Realization of a State of Mind"

"Couched in Blood"

A Way With Words: At Home in Paris

Judith L. Mitrani

Author Judith Mitrani

Author

For over three decades, Judith Mitrani, Ph.D. was a Training and Supervising Analyst at The Psychoanalytic Center of California. She was honored with Emeritus status when she retired from her clinical practice at the end of 2015. A Fellow of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, Dr. Mitrani’s clinical/theoretical work has been published in nine languages.

She is the author of the three clinical volumes, a personal memoir, "The Most Beautiful Place in the World, a memoir of a Psychoanalyst and the Realization of a State of Mind" (2021) and the mystery/thriller "Couched in Blood" (2021). She is also co-editor of two volumes of collected works dedicated to Frances Tustin with her analyst/husband Dr. Theodore Mitrani. Since her retirement, Judith resides in Paris where she lives with her husband and writes on life in Parish for her blog A Way With Words: At Home in Paris.