Letters Home: How Writing Can Change Your Life - Softcover

Vance, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375709029 ISBN 13: 9780375709029

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1999

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Book by Vance Terry

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Describes how unresolved conflicts affect one's life, and argues that expressing feelings through letters can help us confront our problems and free us to reach self-empowerment

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king work that explains how the simple act of letter writing can help us confront our problems and, ultimately, change our lives, Letters Home brings us into the intimate center of family conflict as we follow the efforts of sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and husbands and wives to transform themselves.

Twenty years ago Dr. Terry Vance began assigning letter writing to her psychotherapy patients as a method of addressing past psychological and physical abuses, confronting family members, revealing long-held destructive secrets, facing down the various difficulties in their day-to-day lives, and gaining insight into their own thinking and behavior. In Letters Home, Vance describes the methodology of this therapy, which can work for anyone: how to compose the most effective and empowering letters, what pitfalls to avoid, what outcomes to expect. Using letters written by her patients--each one a haunting narrative in itself--she demonstrates how the letter

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375709029
• ISBN 13: 9780375709029
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 267
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar