Description
A groundbreaking work for healing long-term emotional problems
The Power of Memoir is a pioneering how-to book that provides a new step-by-step program to use memoir writing as a therapeutic process. By going through these steps you'll learn how to choose the significant milestones and turning points that make up a coherent story leading to a life-changing epiphany.
- Help uncover the secret stories that are the keys to healing
- Explore the dynamics and roles of dysfunctional families
- Heal old wounds, creating a better present and brighter future
Using many examples from her students and clients, the author shows how creative, well-planned, and carefully researched memoir writing can offer a process for sorting out the truth from lies and family myths.
Author: Linda Myers
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 01/26/2010
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.36w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9780470508367
ISBN10: 0470508361
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | General
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | General
About the Author
Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., is president of the National Association of Memoir Writers and a practicing psychotherapist. She is the author of Don't Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment, which won the Gold Medal Award from the Bay Area Independent Publishing Association in 2007.
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