11/26/2022 0 Comments Memoir meaning![]() ![]() His memoirs, after “Heaven’s Coast,” are “Firebird,” an autobiography from six to sixteen, and “Dog Years,” which was a New York Times Bestseller and received the Israel Fishman Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association. He has published eight books of poems, three memoirs, an essay on still life painting, objects and intimacy, and a handbook for writers. MARK DOTY is a memoirist and poet, and the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. This weekend we will explore the interface of memoir and psychotherapy and how both disciplines bring the reader and patient to a new and richer understanding of self and other. Only in this way can a chronicle become a story. Both require the important next step of organizing meaning, articulating the linking forces that led to this particular narrative arc. ![]() ![]() Catharsis alone cannot sustain a patient in psychotherapy, nor a reader of memoir. Memoir writing and psychotherapy cannot simply be a chronology or a retelling of events, or an outpouring of the traumatic experiences that have happened in one’s life. Meaning emerges through the process of exploration, finding what is buried and most precious-the pearls-dredging them up to the surface, the light of day, and examining them. To find the narrative both memoirist and patient must delve deep, mining their memories, retrieving and reworking them, and in the end creating something new. In both we look to find the narrative, as opposed to the novelist who creates one. Memoir writing and psychotherapy meet at the intersection of memory and story. ![]()
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