The shaking woman, or, A history of my nerves
Tracks the author's search for a diagnosis for a mysterious condition where she sporadically shakes from the neck down, a search that takes her inside the thought processes of several scientific disciplines, each one with its own opinion but no clear solution.
In this book, Suzette A. Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. She terms this method "scriptotherapy," the process of writing out and writing through traumatic experience in the mode of therapeutic re-enactment. Sh…
In this book, Suzette A. Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. She terms this method "scriptotherapy," the process of writing out and writing through traumatic experience in the mode of therapeutic re-enactment. Sh…
