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The Story of Your Life: Becoming the Author of Your Experience
Contributor(s): Aftel, Mandy (Author)
ISBN: 0684826968     ISBN-13: 9780684826967
Publisher: Touchstone Books
OUR PRICE:   $16.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 1997
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Annotation: Based on a radical new therapeutic approach, this enlightening guide urges readers to view their lives as a novel encompassing three major plots--love, mastery, and loss. Through imaginative exercises and examples from literature and life, "The Story of Your Life" explains how trite or destructive story lines can be eliminated.
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BISAC Categories:
- Self-help
- Psychology | Emotions
Dewey: 616.891
LCCN: 95025477
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.44" W x 8.8" (0.69 lbs) 256 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Is your life a page-turner? A yawner? A cliched story you're tired of repeating? Every life is a story, says therapist Mandy Aftel, but the story of your life doesn't have to read like a bad novel, filled with guilt, anger, and hopelessness that limit your understanding of the past and close off possibilities for the future. Even ordinary lives have the elements of great literature, and we can revise trite or destructive story lines to craft a new narrative of courage, fulfillment, and imagination. Using examples from literature and life and a range of imaginative thinking and writing exercises, Aftel guides us in the creation of an artful existence, full of the complexity, insight, and excitement of a great novel.