Journey Beyond Despair - Parker, Julie Howard
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A true story of two lovers pitted against a deadly enemy, Journey Beyond Despair introduces Julie, the quixotic author, whose conflict between airy ideals and earthly reality results in mental illness. Readers meet the fated couple in 1960 as Peter delivers his terrified wife to a Chicago psychiatric hospital, then returns home to pick up the pieces with three tiny daughters. Julie descends into the abyss of psychosis, but after slowly recovering with Peter's support she launches a forty-year quest to outwit patterns that block intimacy with the man she loves. Each escapade, chiefly one back…mehr

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A true story of two lovers pitted against a deadly enemy, Journey Beyond Despair introduces Julie, the quixotic author, whose conflict between airy ideals and earthly reality results in mental illness. Readers meet the fated couple in 1960 as Peter delivers his terrified wife to a Chicago psychiatric hospital, then returns home to pick up the pieces with three tiny daughters. Julie descends into the abyss of psychosis, but after slowly recovering with Peter's support she launches a forty-year quest to outwit patterns that block intimacy with the man she loves. Each escapade, chiefly one back to France, ends in relapse, leading at last to despair. But at the defining moment, Julie's insight and Peter's selflessness combine to spark a stunning twist neither foresees. Together, the two 'crack the code' of mental illness, showing its healing potential and lifting Julie's search for meaning to the realm of mythic/heroic journey.
Autorenporträt
A graduate of Middlebury College in 1954 with classes abroad at La Sorbonne, Julie Howard Parker has taught French and English and has been a journalist for a California weekly newspaper. An early teacher of yoga, she led sessions for forty years and dipped into commercial television classes, finding eastern philosophy compatible with her white-steepled church roots. Obtaining an MA in Marriage & Family Therapy in 1992 she created a ten-year teen relationships program serving hundreds in the Pasadena public schools. Most important to the author has been overcoming severe mental illness and nurturing an extraordinary marital relationship with Peter. Chronicling this life story has led to a theory about mental illness as 'heroic journey.' Among her favorite books are Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning and Christopher Vogler's The Writer's Journey.