Doctoral Degree, Schizo-affective and Successful Therapist - Hear Dr Carolyn Dobbins On Her New Book

Jan. 3, 2012 - PRLog -- Carolyn Dobbins is a Knoxville mental health counselor who, in her new book, What A Life Can Be: One Therapist's Take on Schizo-Affective Disorder,  reveals in what NAMI called a "story.. told in an unorthodox but very effective manner" that she suffers from schizo-affective disorder.

Structured as a series of therapeutic sessions between a counselor and a patient, the story comes out. It is the story of a young girl who was a promising nationally ranked skier headed for the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid. She did not make Lake Placid but, instead, became homeless, went to jail, was hospitalized, but achieved a PhD in psychology from Vanderbilt, had a singing career in Branson and is a successful psychotherapist

In a lengthy review on the popular mental health site, Psych Central, the reviewer states that:

" Dr. Dobbins gently guides us along the ups and downs she has faced as if this part of her were an actual client (Jane) coming to see her for sessions of psychotherapy, which provides us with the details that make up this fascinating history and also allows the reader to witness her very adept perspective as a trained clinician".

The review went on to say:

"Her manner of writing is very easy to digest and on occasion it was easy to imagine sitting across from her in some café while she disclosed the details of her life to date.  Her genuine concern for others and warm heart come across clearly throughout this entire body of work, which makes it quite easy to get behind what seems to be one of the author’s major objectives:  to better understand those living with mental illness."

The complete review can be seen at http://psychcentral.com/lib/2011/what-a-life-can-be/

Dr Dobbins can be heard discussing her book and the reasons she now reveals her illness on the Healthy Place Radio Show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/healthyplaceradio/2011/12/22...

A weekly newspaper in her home town commented that "the brutal facts are leavened with humor (like the time she called the White House to tell George H.W. Bush to shut up and eat his broccoli and got a call back from someone wanting to know if she was OK) and triumph (like successfully defending her dissertation just a week after being jailed, lost in the system and then hospitalized for a month)."  http://www.shoppernewsnow.com/columnTemplates/bean.aspx (and scroll down)

What A Life Can Be: One Therapist's Take on Schizo-Affective Disorder by Carolyn Dobbins PhD, 226 pages, ISBN 978-0986652226, $19.95 and available from Amazon, Barnes And Noble, Chapters/Indigo, in Kindle  plus other booksellers and distributed by Ingram

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Publishers of quality books on mental illness including After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity, My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery From Mental Illness and Schizophrenia Medicine's Mystery Society's Shame.