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Publisher's Description: Rape, Incest, And Battery Change A Woman's Life Forever. Some Women Never Rise Above The Pain, The Rage, The Humiliation, While Others Seem To Transcend The Violence And Rebuild Their Lives. What Distinguishes Those Who Transcend The Violation? Courage--the Courage To Face Their Past And, Sometimes, To Put It Into Words. In 1989 Miriam Harris Was Serving As Project Coordinator For The Battered Woman's Emergency Intervention Project At Dallas's Parkland Hospital. As Part Of Her Duties, She Taught A Journal-writing Class At A Women's Shelter And Found That The Women She Helped To Express Their Pain, Rage, And Frustration Underwent A Catharsis Of The Soul, But, More Importantly, Understood The Heroic Enterprise Of Regaining Self-power. The Writing Cure, As She Calls It, Builds On The Talking Cure That Originated With Sigmund Freud's Famous Patient, Anna O.^ According To Harris, A Woman Discovers A New Identity By Becoming The Subject Who Writes Rather Than The Victim Who Waits In Silence. Knowing That The Problem Of Violence Against Women Is Universal In Our World, Harris Put Out A Call To Professional Writers, Women In Shelters, And Scholars In Academe. She A

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Author

Miriam Kalman Harris; Harris, Miriam Kalman, 1942-

Publisher

Texas Christian University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585395685

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Collections, Fiction

Rating

3.11 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14