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novel reading?

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 3:50pm.
Three of the best novels I read this summer described a search for mental health; many of the scenes in each were set in therapist's offices, each was told @ least in part by therapists, and each also functions, @ least in part, as a critique of current ways of doing therapy. Occurs to me that looking @ novels/narratives about the search for mental health--that find a way to shape and so manage trauma (by crafting a story that accounts for it?)--might add a nice dimension to this course/conversation.

The novels are
Elliot Perlman, Seven Types of Ambiguity,
Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of An American &
Carol Gilligan, Kyra.

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