A Short Good Life (Paperback)

Philip Lister

ISBN 10: 1476685576 / ISBN 13: 9781476685571

Published by McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson, NC, 2021

About this Item

Paperback. It's unusual to access a child's mind during the magic years of childhood. It's rarer when the child is facing her death. Liza, an ardent child with a deep love of cows and the color purple was diagnosed with leukemia at age four and died two years later in 1996. Liza was an unusually expressive child and her parents, both child psychiatrists, were uniquely oriented to appreciate the richness of a child's mind. Through writing this book, Liza's father strove to reveal the inner world of a child's mind--and a parent's mind--as few other books can. At its center, this is the story of a child's psyche growing and striving to understand all she could of her experience, and of a small family coping with life's biggest challenges. It is a story of love's power to help a family cope and endure despite loss, and to grow, through darkness, back toward a full embrace of life. Through the process, the family emerges transformed, awed by the capacities of this child. At its centre, this book is the story of a child's psyche growing and striving to understand all she could of her experience, and of a small family coping with life's biggest challenges. It is a story of love's power to help a family cope and endure despite loss, and to grow, through darkness, back toward a full embrace of life. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Short Good Life (Paperback)
• Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson, NC
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1476685576
• ISBN 13: 9781476685571
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

It's unusual to access a child's mind during the magic years of childhood. It's rarer when the child is facing her death. Liza, an ardent child with a deep love of cows and the color purple was diagnosed with leukemia at age four and died two years later in 1996. Liza was an unusually expressive child and her parents, both child psychiatrists, were uniquely oriented to appreciate the richness of a child's mind. Through writing this book, Liza's father strove to reveal the inner world of a child's mind--and a parent's mind--as few other books can.

At its center, this is the story of a child's psyche growing and striving to understand all she could of her experience, and of a small family coping with life's biggest challenges. It is a story of love's power to help a family cope and endure despite loss, and to grow, through darkness, back toward a full embrace of life. Through the process, the family emerges transformed, awed by the capacities of this child.

About the Author

The late Philip Lister was an adult and child psychiatrist in private practice in New York City. He was affiliated with Weill Cornell, Columbia, and Mount Sinai medical centers and taught the art of psychotherapy with children and adolescents. In recent years he worked as a therapist in the Phase 3 research study treating PTSD with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.