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Surviving Suicide (Added: December 11, 2009)

Dr. Nancy Rappaport, Harvard psychiatrist and author of the memoir "In Her Wake", joins My News 2's Tara Lynn to discuss ways of coping with suicide. (more)

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By Tara Lynn
Published: December 11, 2009

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Click the video link to see my interview with Harvard psychiatrist and author Nancy Rappaport.

Harvard psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport, author of the memoir "In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother’s Suicide", was haunted for most of her life by her mother’s suicide at the age of 34 that left her, and her five siblings, motherless. Her mom left a suicide note and a grocery list when she killed herself in 1963 —the author was just four years old.

The suicide followed a bitter divorce and came at the heels of a protracted custody battle. Dr. Rappaport’s father had already remarried, and conversations with him about her mother through the years were strained. As an adult she knew that in order to heal she needed to break the silent grief around this trauma and fill the void it left with remnants of the truth about her mother and her past.

In Her Wake is at once an investigation of the mystery surrounding her mother’s suicide, and Dr. Rappaport’s steadfast search for the mother she longs for and barely remembers. It is in her telling of the story that she reveals what matters most: how being a survivor of suicide loss shaped her as a daughter, child psychiatrist, wife and mother of three.

You can purchase the book online: www.InHerWake.com and also on www.Amazon.com and wherever books are sold.