| Author: | Peter Gajdics | ISBN: | 9781941932094 |
| Publisher: | Brown Paper Press | Publication: | May 9, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Brown Paper Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Peter Gajdics |
| ISBN: | 9781941932094 |
| Publisher: | Brown Paper Press |
| Publication: | May 9, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Brown Paper Press |
| Language: | English |
A necessary, incredibly nuanced portrait of a survivor, 'The Inheritance of Shame' will change lives. — GARRARD CONLEY, author of 'Boy Erased: A Memoir' Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy that attempted to “cure” him of his homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdics was under the authority of a dominating, rogue psychiatrist who controlled his patients, in part, by creating and exploiting a false sense of family. Juxtaposed against his parents’ tormented past—his mother’s incarceration and escape from a communist concentration camp in post-World War II Yugoslavia, and his father’s upbringing as an orphan in war-torn Hungary—The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir explores the universal themes of childhood trauma, oppression, and intergenerational pain. Told over a period of decades, the story shows us the damaging repercussions of conversion therapy and reminds us that resilience, compassion, and the courage to speak the truth exist within us all.
A necessary, incredibly nuanced portrait of a survivor, 'The Inheritance of Shame' will change lives. — GARRARD CONLEY, author of 'Boy Erased: A Memoir' Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy that attempted to “cure” him of his homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdics was under the authority of a dominating, rogue psychiatrist who controlled his patients, in part, by creating and exploiting a false sense of family. Juxtaposed against his parents’ tormented past—his mother’s incarceration and escape from a communist concentration camp in post-World War II Yugoslavia, and his father’s upbringing as an orphan in war-torn Hungary—The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir explores the universal themes of childhood trauma, oppression, and intergenerational pain. Told over a period of decades, the story shows us the damaging repercussions of conversion therapy and reminds us that resilience, compassion, and the courage to speak the truth exist within us all.
