Author Archive: Patricia Reis

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Psychotherapy and Memoir: The Talking Cure and the Writing Cure

Psychotherapy and Memoir: The Talking Cure and the Writing Cure

  Without wishing to sound freakish or weird, I liken my vocation—writer and psychotherapist—to conjoined twins. Born in my midlife, they developed from the same fertilized egg, gestated in the same amniotic fluid, were nourished by the same placenta. They share the same interests, the same reading lists, and, dare I say, the same soul. […]

January 8, 2017 | By | Reply More
Love Letters

Love Letters

The first letter I ever wrote to my maternal aunt Ruth, was in 1965. I don’t remember what possessed me to write to her. The risk was great and the reach was far. The letter was no doubt desperate, confessing my troubles to someone who was related, but whom I barely knew, someone I had […]

November 2, 2016 | By | Reply More