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The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir
Paperback
Biographies GeneralChild PsychologySexuality
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9781941932087
Publisher: Brown Paper Press
Published: May 16 2017
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A powerful LGBTQ memoir of survival, trauma, and the unbreakable will to reclaim identity.
At twenty-three, Peter Gajdics entered what he thought was therapy. What followed was six harrowing years of forced conversion under the control of a rogue psychiatrist, a man who used primal scream sessions, psychiatric drugs and cult-like tactics to try to erase Peter's homosexuality.
Isolated in a makeshift group home with other patients, Peter was pressured to reject his real parents, obey Daddy and Mommy figures, and suppress every trace of his true identity. As the therapy spiraled into psychological and physical abuse, Peter fought to survive, escape and ultimately seek justice.
The Inheritance of Shame is a haunting and deeply personal memoir of conversion therapy and its devastating aftermath - but it's also a story of strength. Juxtaposed with his parents' hidden traumas - his mother's escape from a post-WWII concentration camp in Yugoslavia and his father's upbringing as a war orphan in Hungary - Peter's journey reveals the inherited legacy of shame that shaped his life.
Spanning continents and decades, this memoir explores generational trauma, resilience, gay identity and the healing power of truth. The Inheritance of Shame is a raw and courageous account of one man's fight to reclaim his sense of self- and a testament to the enduring strength of the human spirit.
Winner of the Independent Book Publisher Award, Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction and the Saints and Sinners Emerging Writer Award.
Unforgettable... This book is appallingly appropriate in these times. - FOREWORD REVIEWS
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