Gersie, Alida: - Alida Gersie is Director of Studies of the Graduate Arts Therapies Programs at the University of Hertfordshire. She has written several acclaimed books on the uses of stories to bring healing change. Her teaching takes her to different countries, and her clinical research continues to explore ways that therapeutic storymaking can help people integrate and surmount the troubling effect of painful life events. She has published several books with Jessica Kingsley.