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Gajdics, Peter, 1964-
Gajdics, Peter, 1964-
Gajdics, Peter, 1964- -- Family.
Gay men -- Canada -- Biography.
Gay men -- Family relationships -- Case studies.
Sexual reorientation programs -- Case studies.
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The inheritance of shame : a memoir / Peter Gajdics.
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Gajdics, Peter, 1964-
Brown Paper Press, 2017.
Call #:
306.766 G145i
Subjects
Gajdics, Peter, 1964-
Gajdics, Peter, 1964- -- Family.
Gay men -- Canada -- Biography.
Gay men -- Family relationships -- Case studies.
Sexual reorientation programs -- Case studies.
ISBN:
9781941932087 (pbk.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
354 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"The Inheritance of Shame details the six years author Peter Gajdics spent 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--Gajdics' story explores the universal themes of childhood trauma, oppression, and intergenerational pain. Told over a period of decades, the book 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"--Publisher's description.
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