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Telling Stories
Telling Stories
Telling Stories
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An introverted woman is overwhelmed by all the people living inside her when she comes to see psychotherapist, Dr. Freyn, for help. As she slips into a chair in her therapists office week after week, she does not know who she is anymore. When her weekly sessions hit an impasse, Dr. Freyn encourages her to release her internal companions so they may tell their own stories.

As Dr. Freyn shows her pictures--a different one each week--and asks her to tell a story based on the pictures, the patient leads the therapist through a maze of interconnected relationships, madness, suicide, growth, and synthesis as she achieves a deeper connection with herself. As her characters spin a web of narratives that span the latter half of the twentieth century, the boundaries between fantasy and reality, truth and lies, and sanity and madness become blurred as the past and future attempt to reinvent each other.

Telling Stories is the tale of one womans confrontation with her fragmented self and her journey to self-understanding through the stories of the internal characters who haunt her.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAbbott Press
Release dateMay 6, 2015
ISBN9781458218681
Telling Stories
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Deborah Partington

Deborah Partington holds a Master’s of Arts degree from Goddard College, a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, and a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the Arizona School of Professional Psychology. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where she is writing her next novel.

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