Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir Do-It-Yourself conversation-starting book about depression

conversation-starting book about depression

and for readers of Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood

Engagingly written and beautifully designed

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sometimes devastating

Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir Do-It-Yourself conversation-starting book about depressionA 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