The Inheritance of Shame

A Memoir

Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book The Inheritance of Shame by Peter  Gajdics, Brown Paper Press
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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.
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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.

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