A groundbreaking work for healing long-term emotional problemsThe 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.
A groundbreaking work for healing long-term emotional problemsThe 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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword (Kathleen Adams).
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part 1 Eight Steps to Writing a Healing Memoir.
Step 1 Understanding Your Reasons for Writing.
Step 2 Doing Your Research.
Step 3 Planning Your Memoir.
Step 4 The Psychology of Memoir Writing.
Step 5 The Dark Stuff.
Step 6 Organizing the Narrative Arc.
Step 7 To Publish--or Not.
Step 8 The Power of Writing to Heal.
Part 2 Spirituality, Therapy, and Stories.
Chapter 1 Spirituality, Meditation, and Inner Listening.
Chapter 2 For Therapists Who Use the Healing Power ofMemoir.
