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'''Linda Carroll''' (born 1944) is an American author and a marriage and family therapist.<
'''Linda Carroll''' (born 1944) is an American author and a marriage and family therapist.<ref>[http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200606/tortured-love Linda Carroll's background and family]</ref> Carroll received national attention in 1993 when she convinced [[Katherine Ann Power]], a patient of hers at the time, to turn herself into authorities after spending twenty-three years eluding police for a bank robbery and murder she had been involved in.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/17/us/a-conscience-haunted-by-a-radical-s-crime.html|work=The New York Times|title=A Conscience Haunted by a Radical's Crime|date=1993-09-17|accessdate=2014-07-25|author=Egan, Timothy}}</ref> Carroll primarily works as a [[relationship counseling|relationship counselor]], but also specializes in issues pertinent to [[LGBT]] clients.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/name/Linda_A._Carroll-Barraud_Corvallis_Oregon_39520|work=Therapists.about.com|title=Linda Carroll-Barraud|accessdate=2014-07-25}}</ref>

Carroll is the mother of singer and musician [[Courtney Love]], and the daughter of author [[Paula Fox]].
Carroll is the mother of singer and musician [[Courtney Love]], and the daughter of author [[Paula Fox]].


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Linda was born to Paula Fox when she was 20,<ref name=sfgate>{{cite web| url=http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/MOTHERS-DAUGHTERS-Courtney-Love-s-mom-Linda-2505140.php| title=MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS / Courtney Love's mom, Linda Carroll, reflects on her daughter and her own birth mother| author=Neva Chonin| date=February 5, 2006| publisher=San Francisco Chronicle| accessdate=3 March 2013}}</ref>
Linda was born to Paula Fox when she was 20,<ref name=sfgate>{{cite web| url=http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/MOTHERS-DAUGHTERS-Courtney-Love-s-mom-Linda-2505140.php| title=MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS / Courtney Love's mom, Linda Carroll, reflects on her daughter and her own birth mother| author=Neva Chonin| date=February 5, 2006| publisher=San Francisco Chronicle| accessdate=3 March 2013}}</ref>
the result of a short-lived relationship.
the result of a short-lived relationship.
<ref name=newyorker>{{cite news|last=Acocella|first=Joan|title=From Bad Beginnings |url=http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2011/05/16/110516crbo_books_acocella |accessdate=2012-03-01 |newspaper=The New Yorker|date=May 16, 2011}}</ref> Paula lived under the roof of acting coach [[Stella Adler]] at the time, as did then unknown actor [[Marlon Brando]]. There have been persistent rumours that Brando fathered the child, although neither Brando nor Fox ever commented on these and Carroll's paternity remains unknown.<ref>[http://observer.com/2013/04/courtney-loveless-family-tree-remains-mystery-as-feud-with-grandma-sizzles/ Linda Carroll's paternity]</ref> Given the tumultuous relationship with Paula's own biological parents, she gave the child up for adoption. Linda was adopted into a Catholic family of part Italian descent, and was raised in [[Pacific Heights]] by Jack and Louella Risi. Linda took her surname after her friend Judy Carroll, after Judy's death.<ref name=sfgate />
<ref name=newyorker>{{cite news|last=Acocella|first=Joan|title=From Bad Beginnings |url=http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2011/05/16/110516crbo_books_acocella |accessdate=2012-03-01 |newspaper=The New Yorker|date=May 16, 2011}}</ref>
Linda graduated from high school in 1961. She married writer and one time-[[Grateful Dead]] manager Hank Harrison in Reno,<ref name=sfgate /> and gave birth to Courtney Love in 1964. Within years of Courtney's birth, both Carroll's adoptive parents died. Also, Carroll's three-month-old baby died of a heart defect.
<ref name=independent>{{cite web| url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/no-love-lost-for-a-mothers-lost-love-130646.html| title=No love lost for a mother's lost love| author=Gaby Wood| date=28 May 2006| publisher=Independent Woman| accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite book|title=Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love|author=Carroll, Linda|isbn=978-0-385-51247-3|publisher=Doubleday|year=2005}}</ref>
She divorced Harrison in 1969, alleging that he had given Love LSD, and brought her daughter with her to [[Marcola, Oregon]]. She had two other daughters with the second husband, and settled on a hippie commune in Oregon. She divorced and married Frank Rodriguez.
<ref>{{cite book |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=uQ2I9cpJWYIC&pg=PA188#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity |first=K Elan|last= Jung|pages=188–189 |publisher=The Hudson Press|year=2010 |accessdate=2011-10-30}}</ref>

After finishing her bachelors degree in [[Oregon]] in the 1970s, she moved to [[New Zealand]]. She returned to Oregon in the 1980s and received a masters in counseling, and began practicing as a therapist. In the nineties, she and her veterinarian husband, Tim Barraud, began to teach a couples course based on the [[Imago Therapy|Imago]] work of [[Harville Hendrix]], the [[PAIRS Foundation|PAIRS]] training of Dr. Lori Gordon, and their own insights, study, and practices.
After finishing her bachelors degree in [[Oregon]] in the 1970s, she moved to [[New Zealand]]. She returned to Oregon in the 1980s and received a masters in counseling, and began practicing as a therapist. In the nineties, she and her veterinarian husband, Tim Barraud, began to teach a couples course based on the [[Imago Therapy|Imago]] work of [[Harville Hendrix]], the [[PAIRS Foundation|PAIRS]] training of Dr. Lori Gordon, and their own insights, study, and practices.


As an adult, Carroll found that her birth mother is the novelist Paula Fox (her grandmother was screenwriter [[Elsie Fox]]).<ref name=independent/>
As an adult, Carroll found that her birth mother is the novelist Paula Fox (her grandmother was screenwriter [[Elsie Fox]]).<ref name=independent/>
In 2006, her memoir ''Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love'', was published by Doubleday.<ref name=usatoday>{{cite web| url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-08-24-courtney-love_x.htm| title=Courtney Love's mom denies paper's story| date=2003-08-24| publisher=USA Today| accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref>
In 2006, her memoir ''Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love'', was published by Doubleday.<ref name=usatoday>{{cite web| url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-08-24-courtney-love_x.htm| title=Courtney Love's mom denies paper's story| date=2003-08-24| publisher=USA Today| accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref>

Carroll has not spoken to her daughter in years and remains estranged. Love's agent called the book a work of "vicious and greedy fiction", and said, "We find it astonishing that any mother should write such a book. This is especially true in the case of Ms Carroll, who abandoned her daughter when she was a seven-year-old and whom Ms Love thus barely knows at all."<ref name=sfgate /><ref name=independent />
In 2008, ''Remember Who You Are'' was published by Conari Press, and she is currently working on a book about relationships entitled ''Love Cycles''.
In 2008, ''Remember Who You Are'' was published by Conari Press, and she her current book,''Love Cycles''.was published in Fall 2014 by New World LIbrary.
<ref>{{cite web| url=http://experiencelife.com/article/the-same-old-argument/| title=The Same Old Argument| author=Jon Spayde| date=May 2012| accessdate=3 March 2013| publisher=Experience Life}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web| url=http://experiencelife.com/article/the-same-old-argument/| title=The Same Old Argument| author=Jon Spayde| date=May 2012| accessdate=3 March 2013| publisher=Experience Life}}</ref>


Revision as of 04:06, 24 August 2014

Linda Carroll
Born
Linda Anne Risi

April 1944
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Author, therapist, counselor
Years active1980-present
Known forTherapist; led to surrender of fugitive Katherine Power
Children5

Linda Carroll (born 1944) is an American author and a marriage and family therapist.< Carroll is the mother of singer and musician Courtney Love, and the daughter of author Paula Fox.

Biography

Linda was born to Paula Fox when she was 20,[1] the result of a short-lived relationship. [2] After finishing her bachelors degree in Oregon in the 1970s, she moved to New Zealand. She returned to Oregon in the 1980s and received a masters in counseling, and began practicing as a therapist. In the nineties, she and her veterinarian husband, Tim Barraud, began to teach a couples course based on the Imago work of Harville Hendrix, the PAIRS training of Dr. Lori Gordon, and their own insights, study, and practices.

As an adult, Carroll found that her birth mother is the novelist Paula Fox (her grandmother was screenwriter Elsie Fox).[3] In 2006, her memoir Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love, was published by Doubleday.[4]

In 2008, Remember Who You Are was published by Conari Press, and she her current book,Love Cycles.was published in Fall 2014 by New World LIbrary. [5]

As of 2014, Carroll has five children and ten grandchildren.[6]

References

  1. ^ Neva Chonin (February 5, 2006). "MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS / Courtney Love's mom, Linda Carroll, reflects on her daughter and her own birth mother". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  2. ^ Acocella, Joan (May 16, 2011). "From Bad Beginnings". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference independent was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Courtney Love's mom denies paper's story". USA Today. 2003-08-24. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  5. ^ Jon Spayde (May 2012). "The Same Old Argument". Experience Life. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  6. ^ Linda Carroll children and grandchildren

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