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Lights on, rats out : a memoir / Cree LeFavour.

by LeFavour, Cree.

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Grove Press, c2017.

LeFavour, Cree.

Self-mutilation -- Treatment.

Self-injurious behavior -- Treatment.

9780802125965 (hc.)

0802125964 (hc.)

1st Grove Atlantic hardcover ed.

312 p. ; 22 cm.

"As a young college graduate a year into treatment with a psychiatrist, Cree LeFavour began to organize her days around the cruel, compulsive logic of self-harm: with each newly lit cigarette, the world would drop away as her focus narrowed on the blooming release of pleasure-pain as the burning tip was applied to an unblemished patch of skin. Her body was a canvas of cruelty; each scar a mark of pride and shame. In sharp and shocking language, Lights On, Rats Out brings us closely into these years. We see the world as Cree did--turned upside down, the richness of life muted and dulled, its pleasures perverted. The heady thrill of meeting with her psychiatrist, Dr. Adam N. Kohl--whose relationship with Cree is at once sustaining and paralyzing--comes to be the only bright spot in her days. Lights On, Rats Out describes a fiercely smart and independent woman's charged attachment to a mental health professional and the dangerous compulsion to keep him in her life at all costs."--Jacket.

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