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About the Author

Maggie Scarf is a former visiting fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, and a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University. She is the author of two books for children and six books for adults, including the New York Times bestseller Intimate Partners. She lives in mostrar mais Connecticut with her husband, Herb, the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale, and is the mother of three adult daughters. mostrar menos

Obras por Maggie Scarf

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1932
Sexo
female
Organizações
Yale University
The New Republic

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It is pretty fascinating to think that your physical body holds the keys to unlocking mental trauma. By paying attention to your body's postures, tensions, aches, and pains, you could solve mysteries of the mind. Physical health could nurture mental health. Part memoir, part psychology is how I would describe Scarf's Secrets, Lies, Betrayals. She uses stories from both sides of the couch, so to speak; both as a patient and as a therapist, to illustrate the benefits of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy.… (mais)
 
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SeriousGrace | Jun 4, 2020 |
explores the patterns of family misery and well-being. Shows how harmonious families differ from dysfunctional ones
 
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jhawn | Jul 31, 2017 |
Maggie Scarf writes compassionately about the arguments and entrenched (false) dichotomies that emerge in marriage and intimate partnerships. She argues that the root cause of unhappiness and anxiety in relationships is a self that hasn't yet been differentiated from it's original family, leading to confusion regarding how to be simultaneously autonomous and intimate. It's an excellent, illuminating book, and Scarf's examples from her personal practice are vivid and convincing.
 
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ann.elizabeth | Jun 14, 2010 |

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Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
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ISBN
33
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