Purr Therapy: What Timmy & Marina Taught Me About Life, Love and Loss
By McCoy, Dr. Kathy, PhD
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Cats aren't a typical choice for animal-assisted psychotherapy, but Timmy and Marnia are anything but typical. Research has found that petting a cat can lower blood pressure and a cat's purr is thought to help heal body tissues and bones. But not just any cat can be a therapy
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Purr Therapy: What Timmy & Marina Taught Me About Life, Love and Loss
9780757318047
Health Communications Inc EB
7 October 2014
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Pets & Equine
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Author Biography
Kathleen McCoy, PhD is a psychotherapist and the award-winning author of a dozen books including ALA's Best Books for Young Adults winner The Teenage Body Book (Random House, 2008) and Understanding Your Teenager's Depression (Perigee, 2005). Dr. McCoy was the columnist for Seventeen's Sex and Your Body and she is a former editor of Teen. Dr. McCoy has also written for national publications such as Readers Digest, The New York Times, Family Circle, Mademoiselle, TV Guide and The Journal of Clinical Child Psychology. Dr. McCoy and her husband recently moved from Los Angeles to Florence, Arizona, a small historic town where they live with their four cats Gus, Maggie, SweetPea and Hamish. Visit her at: www.drkathymccoy.com.