Author

Victoria Costello

Victoria Costello writes popular psychology and blogs at MentalHealthMomBlog.com. Her memoir, “A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science Behind Three Generations of Mental Illness,” will be published in Jan 2012. Her “ Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Memoir” will appear this December.

The implications of plot lines in illness and memoir

Narrative therapy uses a client’s life story to shine a spotlight on how he understands his experience. The concept of an “illness narrative” emerged not in a literary context but over…
July 11, 2011