One of the catalysts for my new novel, A Dangerous Daughter, was the discovery that an academic had unearthed a letter, which she rightly suspected was about me. It was written in 1957 by the analyst who saved my life, Dr Ivy Bennett, I agreed to be interviewed for the academic’s thesis on psychoanalysis: Interview with Christine Brett Vickers, LaTrobe […]
How Writing helped Me Survive. It is only recently that scientists have discovered that anorexia nervosa is genetic, not, as presented in the popular media, a life choice. Nevertheless sufferers are often still blamed for bringing the illness on themselves, compassion goes to the patients’ families, rather than to the sufferer herself. My work-in-progress, A Dangerous Daughter, is a […]
Lately I’ve been reworking my novel, A Dangerous Daughter – hence you haven’t heard from me for quite a while. It’s a never-ending, always changing process of trial and error, good days and bad. Starting a new draft requires courage, determination and a belief that you can do this thing, killing your darlings as you go, silencing your inner critic […]
Imagine being told as a child struggling with a crippling eating disorder that you are “naughty” and “disobedient” because you refuse to eat. Being told that “you cannot be trusted, that you are manipulative, that you are selfish, that you are vain and that you are a burden on your family and the healthcare system”. This quote is drawn […]
How Writing helped Me Survive. Note: This article appears in a different form on the website https://www.thediaryhealer.com In the early fifties I was sent away from my family to an aunt & uncle on the other side of the continent because I was ill. My symptoms were extreme loss of weight, obsessive walking, and refusal to eat. Desperate, my parents […]
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