Sharpening Shadows

About the Book

Three college women, born in different decades, spend a weekend retreat in Northern Wisconsin in 1980. Their assignment is to employ self therapy in understanding themselves. This approach contends that successful psychotherapy is determined by the patient’s speaking aloud; that any therapist is irrelevant or even counterproductive. In search of personal growth and fulfillment, each identifies new vulnerabilities and strengths as she talks about rape, menarche, first sex, sexual abuse, abortion, marriage, lovers, divorce, and children. Two academicians work together in establishing this unique study of self therapy. Each was driven to participate for very different personal reasons.

About the Author

NANCY CLARK SCOBIE has a Master of Science degree in teaching and has an educational specialist degree in Guidance and Counseling. She is lecturer on staff at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Communications and Journalism Department). She provides classes for divorcing parents. JOHN R. THURSTON, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire). He practiced as a clinical psychologist for many years. As a research psychologist, he was Principal Investigator for two major longitudinal studies, authoring over 60 articles and books during the course of that career. They have co-authored four books together.