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Author Chrisinger, David, 1986- author.

Title STORIES ARE WHAT SAVE US : a survivor's guide to writing about trauma.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource
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Summary A foreword by former soldier and memoirist Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country, and an afterword by military wife and memoirist Angela Ricketts, author of No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife, bookend the volume.
Contents Introduction: Atonement -- PART I THE SEARCHING -- 1 Finding Your Story of Transformation -- 2 Uncovering Your Object of Desire -- 3 Recognizing the Story underneath Your Story -- 4 Turning Yourself into a Character -- PART II THE STRUCTURE -- 5 Incorporating the Five Essentials of Storytelling -- 6 Starting with One True Thing -- PART III THE STORY -- 7 Crafting Immersive Scenes -- 8 Using Fiction to Tell the Truth -- 9 Telling Your Story to Build Connection and Understanding -- Afterword -- Storytelling Exercises -- Suggested Further Reading -- About the Author -- Index.
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Subject Chrisinger, David, 1986- -- Mental health.
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment -- United States.
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment.
United States.
Psychic trauma -- United States -- Biography.
Psychic trauma.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Mental health.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: 1421440806 9781421440804 (OCoLC)1240305580
ISBN 9781421440811 (electronic book)
1421440814 (electronic book)
1421440806
9781421440804