Dr. Lucy Daniels

With a Woman's Voice: A Writer's Struggle for Emotional Freedom

After struggling as a young woman with anorexia and a crushing sense of inadequacy, Lucy Daniels emerged from years in a mental hospital to become a bestselling novelist. In her memoir, With a Woman's Voice, Daniels reveals the strength and insights she gained from her psychoanalysis and the attainment of her doctorate in clinical psychology.

Selected Works

Non-fiction
Dreaming Your Way to Creative Freedom
A two-mirror liberation process, sharing the specific outcome of Lucy Daniels' 30-year struggle against writer's block and offering a road map for others to use on their personal journey.
Fiction
The Eyes of the Father
A compelling story about people controlled by the past.
High on a Hill
High on a Hill was Daniels' Guggenheim project and was published in 1961.
Caleb, My Son
Caleb, My Son, published in 1956, was called "a remarkable novel" by the New York Times.
Memoir
With a Woman's Voice: A Writer's Struggle for Emotional Freedom
In this long-awaited memoir, award-winning novelist Lucy Daniels provides a gripping account of an emotionally distressed childhood that led to chronic anorexia and a long-standing writer's block. Here, free at last from past demons and the unreasonable demands of a socially powerful family, Daniels tells her life story with insight, humor, and compassion.