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Feb 4, 2015 · Elizabeth Garrison is the bestselling author of Wounds of the Father: A True Story of Child Abuse, Betrayal, and Redemption. She is a clinical psychologist who works as a leading researcher in child abuse. Her research focuses on the effects of child abuse and developing interventions to help children recover.
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Feb 4, 2015 · Elizabeth Garrison, a clinical psychologist and ghost-writer, shares her harrowing story of growing up in a Christian family with a violent and abusive father. She reveals how she survived drug addiction, homelessness, and foster care to find her own strength and healing.
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Elizabeth Garrison is the bestselling author of Wounds of the Father: A True Story of Child Abuse, Betrayal, and Redemption. She is a clinical psychologist who works ... Read full bio.
In the best-selling tradition of Smashed and The Glass Castle, this raw, eye-opening memoir tells the powerful story of Elizabeth Garrison's fractured childhood, descent into teenage drug addiction, and struggle to overcome nearly insurmountable odds.
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- Healing Through Writing
- Writing Fiction as A Therapeutic Tool
- Elizabeth’s Self-Publishing Journey
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Elizabeth was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household in the Midwest. Her parents believed in corporal punishment, a lot of which crossed the line into physical abuse. There was a lot of emotional abuse as well. She had to deal with incest as well. Her family projected a very good image to outside observers, but inside her home there was a l...
Many writers write stories to work out the conflicts of their own lives. Whether they do it consciously or unconsciously they develop characters from experiences in their own lives and work out conflicts with those characters on the page. This isn’t a conscious choice by the author, but it often happens anyway, and it can be incredibly therapeutic....
Elizabeth recently published her memoir Wounds of the Father. She wrote the first two drafts of her memoir over 10 years ago. It’s taken her 10 years to get up the courage to publish her book. It’s very scary to publish a memoir like this because when people are critiquing the memoir they are actually critiquing the life of the author. She decided ...
Elizabeth Garrison is a bestselling author of Wounds of the Father, a memoir about her childhood of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. She shares how writing helped her cope with her trauma, how she uses writing to help others, and how she self-published her book.
Elizabeth Garrison has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and works as a researcher for the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. Her research focuses on the effects of childhood abuse and developing interventions to help children recover. She also is a well-known celebrity ghost-writer.
Abstract: Oral history interview with Elizabeth Garrison conducted by Walter John Ritzau on February 25, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Garrison first talks about her schooling in Las Vegas, Nevada, the atomic testing, the Devils Hole in Ash Meadows, early church involvement, and some of
