Linda Gray Sexton, author of the nationally acclaimed Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide. Though she thought she had made peace with the various legacies of her mother—a Pulitzer-Prize winning poet—Sexton learned in her forty-fifth year that she had not. Becoming suicidal herself, she discovered all they still had in common. Struggling to at last arrive at a resolution over her mother’s death, in 2011 she completed the cycle begun in 1974, following the suicide, when she was just a college senior and first became her mother’s literary executor. This memoir is about the painful transition from trauma to hope, and from illness back to health.

Copies of her books will be available for purchase.

Learning Objectives:
1. To better understand the role the art of memoir can play in healing psychological trauma.
2. To recognize the powerful manner in which suicide can be passed across the generations of a family through both biology and the environment.
3. To see how essential both therapy and medication can be for healing the wounds of the past.

References:
1. Sexton, Linda Gray. Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint1994; Reissued April 2011.
2. Sexton, Linda Gray. Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint 2011.

This program is FREE and open to the public.
Continuing Education certification for this event is available for a $30.00 fee.
The fee is waived for BPSI trainees and members.

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