Torey L. Hayden

Torey Lynn Hayden (actually Victoria Lynn Hayden ; born May 21, 1951 in Livingston , Montana ) is an American author and psychologist .

Life

Hayden was born in Montana in 1951. In 1980 she moved to Wales . In 1982 she married a Scot. Her daughter Sheena, with whom she currently lives on a farm in Scotland , was born in 1985.

Torey Lynn Hayden is a trained psychologist and educator for behavioral and mentally disabled children and adolescents. She developed a method for the treatment of mutism (being silent when the ability to speak) and gained a lot of international attention through the exciting case studies of "her" children. In her home country and in Europe she is one of the best-known and most successful authors of psychological non-fiction.

Fonts

• 1980 One Child ( Sheila )
• 1981 Somebody Else's Kids (Bo and the others)
• 1983 Murphy's Boy (also released as "Silent Boy") (Kevin - the boy who refused to speak)
• 1984 The Sunflower Forest (not translated into German)
• 1988 Just Another Kid
• 1991 Ghost Girl (Jadie)
• 1995 The Tiger's Child ( My Time with Sheila )
• 1998 The Mechanical Cat (OVERHEARD IN A DREAM) (not translated into German)
• 2002 Beautiful Child (Do you hear me, Venus?)
• 2003 The Very Worst Thing (not translated into German)
• 2005 Twilight Children (Because I'm an alien - two kids on their way through therapy)
• 2009 Ziji or The puppy who learned to meditate (not translated into German)
• 2011 Innocent Foxes (not translated into German)

The specified years of publication refer to the American first editions.

Sheila is about how Torey L. Hayden met six-year-old Sheila R. after she tried to burn a three-year-old boy.

The book “Do you hear me, Venus?” Deals most strongly with the subject of mutism. Torey Hayden tries to free a traumatized seven-year-old from the past and to accompany her into the future.

Web links

• official homepage
• Literature by and about Torey L. Hayden in the catalog of the German National Library