Linda Carroll
Linda Carroll | |
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| Born | Linda Anne Risi April 1944 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Author, therapist, counselor |
| Years active | 1980-present |
| Known for | Therapist; led to surrender of fugitive Katherine Power |
| Children | 5 |
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Acocella, Joan (May 16, 2011). "From Bad Beginnings". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Jon Spayde (May 2012). "The Same Old Argument". Experience Life. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ Linda Carroll children and grandchildren
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