Telling Stories, by Deborah Partington
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Telling Stories, by Deborah Partington
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An introverted woman is overwhelmed by all the people living inside her when she comes to see psychotherapist, Dr. Freyn, for help. As she slips into a chair in her therapist's office week after week, she does not know who she is anymore. When her weekly sessions hit an impasse, Dr. Freyn encourages her to release her internal companions so they may tell their own stories.
As Dr. Freyn shows her pictures--a different one each week--and asks her to tell a story based on the pictures, the patient leads the therapist through a maze of interconnected relationships, madness, suicide, growth, and synthesis as she achieves a deeper connection with herself. As her characters spin a web of narratives that span the latter half of the twentieth century, the boundaries between fantasy and reality, truth and lies, and sanity and madness become blurred as the past and future attempt to reinvent each other. Telling Stories is the tale of one woman's confrontation with her fragmented self and her journey to self-understanding through the stories of the internal characters who haunt her. Telling Stories, by Deborah Partington- Amazon Sales Rank: #3020430 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-06
- Released on: 2015-05-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .95" w x 6.00" l, 1.22 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 378 pages
About the Author
Deborah Partington holds a Master's of Arts degree from Goddard College, a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, and a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the Arizona School of Professional Psychology. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where she is writing her next novel.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Helpful, Hopeful, Wise By Pat Schneider Deborah Partington’s novel, Telling Stories, traces a remarkable journey – a hero’s journey, one might say -- but Penelope’s rather than Odysseus’. A deeply introverted woman, confused by the shifting images of the many selves she feels herself to be, is challenged by her psychotherapist to respond to pictures he gives her. Each week a new picture; each week a story that she creates in response to the picture. The stories arise “from the remnants, bones, fossils of a childhood not entirely left behind in this mirage of adulthood.”Partington is particularly able to navigate the journey. She writes beautifully, lyrically: “We were clichés. You, the wind. Me, a November leaf scuttled in the waste of our breath.” And knowledgeably within the world of western literature. Characters appear and disappear in her stories, like a braid, or a knit fabric. Artfully, deliciously, she offers touchstones, sign posts, phrases by Eliot, Auden, Plath, Rich – never pretentiously, but loved intimately and understood well through her achievement of an MFA in creative writing.Similarly, Partington’s own training as a psychotherapist is used subtly, giving the reader a double vision: what is happening to the woman as lover / seeker / pilgrim, but also to experience subtly the silent but intensely present therapist who believes that telling stories is the oldest form of therapy. In the space created between them, he accompanies her through listening and receiving her words. She describes him as “the canvas of the sails . . . Sails harness the wind, much like your words, “please come through” harnessed me, my lost self to the hour of grounding.”Telling Stories, it seems to me, is an offering, a suggestion to the reader. For me as a woman and as a writer, the way seems familiar. A woman’s way, knitting together images into stories that bring patterns up from the under the surface of lived experience. Ultimately, intuitively, seeing and understanding the patterns of our own stories may heal the broken psyche. It may not be too much to say that it is Penelope, weaving, who ultimately brings Odysseus safely home.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Well thought out and compelling but challenging! By Serafina Mezzanotte I thought this was an interesting premise for a book . . . the author’s own training as a psychotherapist informs the story about a deeply introverted patient who barely knows herself. Dr Freyn, the therapist, recognizes that she has multiple narratives in her head, not necessarily multiple personalities a la “Sybil” but multiple points of view that seem to live together and cause her anxiety. It’s kind of hard to explain. They don’t seem to be making any progress on their sessions so Dr Freyn encourages the patient to let each of these multiple viewpoints tell their own story each week based on a picture that the doctor shows.The result is a web of somewhat interconnected stories about things as mundane as Christmas decorations and as deep as eternal love. The hard thing for me was that it was a long book and it was difficult to keep track of the main internal narrative when each chapter is basically a short story that itself has a hard time keeping track of the fine line between fantasy and reality. It’s one patient, with fragmented personalities each getting a turn, and each telling a story about something not necessarily related to the rest of the book. The author delves deeply into each story and the thought processes of each “personality” are very well thought out and compelling, though it just felt like a lot to keep straight as the book went on.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Power of the Story By Kendra Lee Deborah Partington skillfully weaves short stories into a compelling narrative that uncover glimpses into the psyche of the (unreliable?) narrator. The result is both compelling and unnerving, an unflinching look at human nature, struggle, inertia and triumph. I found myself caught up in the complexities of the narrator's emotions, her frustrations and despair. At the same time, the book is not without hope and light. They just come from completely unexpected places.The framework of self-discovery through storytelling allows the reader space to examine his or her own life in light of the narrator's own revelations. The push and pull of the story and the narrative that lies in between keeps the reader struggling to decipher what really lies behind these stories. And the literary references sprinkled throughout the book add to the challenge of figuring out how one who possesses such intellect and such advantage can be so utterly, wholly emotionally stagnated that life has dwindled down to nothing more than a bleak series of mundane routines.Relief on comes when she discovers that there is power in the story. And there is freedom in the telling.
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