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Buried Lives Memoir of a Survivor by Nancy Dillingham $3.99 Available for your Kindle! Visit: Nancy Dillingham Amazon Author's Page Framing her tale as a "fictional memoir," Nancy Dillingham takes on a topic historically avoided by the psychiatric community—sexual abuse of a client by a therapist.
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New Ground: Poems and Stories
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Works by Nancy Dillingham (Continued) Anthologies with coeditor Celia Miles Order the below at www.CeliaMiles.com Christmas Presence from 45 WNC Women Writers $18.00 Clothes Lines from 75 WNC Women Writers $20.00 Women's Spaces Women's places from 50 WNC Women Writers $20.00 It's All Relative: Tales from the Tree from 50 WNC Women Writers $16.95
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Framing her tale as a "fictional memoir," Nancy Dillingham takes on a topic historically avoided by the psychiatric community—sexual abuse of a client by a therapist. This novella reads like a detective thriller where the protagonist and her tormentor play a suspenseful cat and mouse game of wits that ultimately lays bare the buried lives of each. The story builds to an excruciatingly painful and heartbreaking climax where the protagonist victoriously fights for her life and her sanity, all the while exposing her tormentor behind the mask, masquerading as a therapist. Juxtaposing poetic and brutal passages, Dillingham’s work offers incisive and damning commentary on a too-long-hidden problem insidiously woven into the fabric of our society. Excerpts: ~ “Within a mere two months the combined effects of the sexual abuse
and the unresolved problems that had originally prompted me to enter
psychotherapy, made life unbearable. I was burdened with an unending
depression, and my thoughts progressed from occasional ideas about suicide
to a studied contemplation of it. I had experienced a pervasive sense of
having no control over my life. I felt helpless to affect the world around
me, to affect my inner world. I was torn between caring for the once
trusted Dr. X and hating the therapist who had used me sexually. My
confusion emerged in the form of violent dreams that brought me screaming
into wakefulness.”  About the Author Nancy Dillingham is a sixth-generation Dillingham from Big Ivy in western North Carolina. She is the author of nine books of poetry and short fiction and co-editor, with Celia Miles, of four anthologies of WNC women writers. Her volume of poems Home was nominated for a SIBA. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina. |