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Record Nr.

UNINA9910156182103321

Autore

Walsh Carol K

Titolo

Painting Life : My Creative Journey Through Trauma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : She Writes Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-63152-100-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.) : ill

Soggetti

Walsh, Carol Kurtz

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Patients--Biography

Psychotherapists--Maryland--Biography

Art therapy

Psychic trauma--Treatment

Mental health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

When Carol Walsh pulled her fiancé from the bottom of a diving well--dead from a massive heart attack--her life was turned upside down. Even though she was a psychotherapist working with clients suffering from trauma, this personal shock felt unbearable. Nonetheless, she had to heal herself while supporting clients--and, as a single mother, her two children. Using the creative interests she'd developed during childhood in order to emotionally save herself from a difficult mother, she fully recovered from her grief and PTSD symptoms--and as she recreated her personal, artistic, and professional life, she began to thrive.