Writing about a painful marriage is one thing. Publishing that account under your own name, knowing that family members, colleagues, and strangers may read it, is another. For Dr. Diane Pomerantz, deciding how to tell her story became nearly as complicated as writing it.
She considered turning her experience into an autobiographical novel or publishing under a pseudonym. Eventually, she chose to tell the story as her own in Lost in the Reflecting Pool: Surviving Narcissistic Emotional Abuse, a decision that required her to weigh personal honesty against the privacy of those whose lives intersected with hers.
When a Private Story Begins to Take Shape
Dr. Pomerantz began keeping a journal in 1997, during a period when she was undergoing psychoanalysis. She was married, raising children, and maintaining her professional life as a psychologist, yet she was struggling emotionally in ways she had not fully understood.
