Faces of Denial

Root, Jill B

ISBN 10: 1087878306 / ISBN 13: 9781087878300

Published by Jill B. Root, 2021

About this Item

Print on Demand pp. 322.

Seller Inventory # 379142422

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Faces of Denial
• Publisher: Jill B. Root
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1087878306
• ISBN 13: 9781087878300
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In a remarkable memoir that reads like a novel, Jill Root's mind shattered without warning one morning, and a strange child's voice crashed like a stone through the surface of her apparently normal life. Beneath that surface lay an abyss of confusion and denial that ripped Jill's consciousness into unrecognizable pieces that would take years of work with three very different therapists to reassemble.

The mystery of her symptoms unfolds layer by layer, along with her struggle to accept a reality quite different from the idyllic childhood she had believed in. Dialogues with her charismatic father and emotionally distant mother create portraits of denial, and actual transcriptions of therapy sessions provide unique insight into the process of healing. This book will give reassurance and hope to survivors of trauma, and guidance to the partners and mental health professionals who struggle to help them.

About the Author

For forty years Jill Root was an editor and publications manager for environmental consulting firms, government contractors, and academic publishers. She is the author of Play Without Pain: A Manual of Playground Safety; Interstate 90: A Guide to Points of Interest You Can See Without Stopping; and scripts for three educational multimedia CD-ROMs: Lewis and Clark Rediscovery; Centuries of Scenic Byways; and El Camino Real. She enjoys a busy retirement near her children and grandchildren in a Northern California suburb with her husband and her English Labrador Retriever.