Short Good Life

Her Father Tells Liza's Story of Facing Death

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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It's unusual to access a child's mind during the magic years of childhood. It's rarer when the child is facing her death. Liza, an ardent child with a deep love of cows and the color purple was diagnosed with leukemia at age four and died two years later in 1996. Liza was an unusually expressive child and her parents, both child psychiatrists, were uniquely oriented to appreciate the richness of a child's mind. Through writing this book, Liza's father strove to reveal the inner world of a child's mind--and a parent's mind--as few other books can. At its center, this is the story of a child's psyche growing and striving to understand all she could of her experience, and of a small family coping with life's biggest challenges. It is a story of love's power to help a family cope and endure despite loss, and to grow, through darkness, back toward a full embrace of life. Through the process, the family emerges transformed, awed by the capacities of this child.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-09-03
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt381 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor284
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476685571

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Philip Lister is an adult and child psychiatrist in private practice in New York City. He is affiliated with Weill Cornell, Columbia, and Mount Sinai medical centers and teaches the art of psychotherapy with children and adolescents. In recent years he has worked as a therapist in the Phase 3 research study treating PTSD with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. For more about the book see the author’s website, ashortgoodlife.com.

Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Wonderful World of Color Part I. All the Way to the Deep End1 Bone Marrow Biopsy2 Day Zero3 Induction4 A Bumpy Road5 Complications6 Living with What Do You Call ItPart II. Transplantation: From Hither to Yon7 Limbo8 Second Year, Second Medical Center9 Final Preparations10 Transplant 11 Home Again, Again12 Fog13 GVHD and PUVA14 New Troubles: Diabetes and PainPart III. Heart to Heart15 Questions16 Did You Get That?17 Supports18 Alert Again19 Speaking of Death20 The Happy Sad Birthday21 The Reader22 Molly’s Birthday23 TimeEpilogue: Through Loss, Deeper HuesAcknowledgmentsIndex

“The strength of the heartbreaking memoir rests with the author’s ability to capture, through narration and daily dialogue, the inner turmoil and resilience of each family member (including Liza’s older sister, Molly), as they struggled together through the frustrations, anger, doubts, love, hopes, and fears during this painful ordeal... An emotionally honest, informative, and beautifully composed cancer account; a solid addition to the genre.”—Kirkus Reviews