NEW YORK–April 7, 2015–Morgan James’s new release, Let’s All Hold Hands and Drop Dead: Three Generations One Story by Elaine Jean Cooper, analyzes the effect that genealogy has on people’s lives.
A unique and inte
resting case study, Let’s All Hold Hands and Drop Dead explores the effect of genealogy and family background on people’s lives without them realizing it. Cooper engages readers with stories of her past and helps them think about their own past and its impact on their current lives.
Cooper weaves together three narratives in Let’s All Hold Hands and Drop Dead. She shares the story of her father, a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine. After he learned English, he wrote a book about his childhood, which Cooper includes as chapters throughout the book. She analyzes how her father’s experiences in Ukraine shaped his parenting style.
As the second generation in Let’s All Hold Hands and Drop Dead, Cooper includes diary entries from her growing up years, letters to her past self from her future self, and thoughts from her brother. The contrast between the diary entries and the letters to her past self show how Cooper’s circumstances and family background influenced her actions and emotions. Looking back, Cooper can see the impact of these various situations from a psychological perspective, allowing her to experience peace and healing in her life.
Cooper teaches this perspective in the group therapy session that she leads, the third generation in Let’s All Hold Hands and Drop Dead. As the participants talk about their lives, Cooper guides them in finding the root of their problems. Sometimes they dig far back into childhood to find that some of their innate responses come from their earliest experiences.
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About the Author:
A clinical professor at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco, Elaine J. Cooper has been awarded the annual Excellence in Teaching Award nine times. She has also been a faculty member at Smith College, New York University, New York Medical College, Hunter College, Adelphi University, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and University of California at Berkeley. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. With 45 years of clinical practice and 30 years of teaching experience in individual, couples, and group therapy, Cooper is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on group therapy, including Group Intervention: How to Maintain Groups in Medical and Psychiatric Settings. She currently resides in Berkeley, California where she has a private practice
in individual, couple and group psychodynamic psychotherapy. She also leads workshops on Generational Social Trauma.
More About This Title:
Let’s All Hold Hands and Drop Dead: Three Generations One Story by Elaine J. Cooper will be released by Morgan James Publishing on April 7, 2015. Let’s All Hold Hands and Drop Dead—ISBN 978-1630473600—has 290 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $19.95.
About Morgan James Publishing:
Morgan James Publishing (www.MorganJamesPublishing.com) provides entrepreneurs with the vital information, inspiration, and guidance they need to be successful. Morgan James Publishing, The Entrepreneurial Publisher™, has been recognized by Publisher’s Weekly for three years on their fast growing press list and is reported as being the future of publishing.
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