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Author Farrell Smith, Suzanne, author.

Title The memory sessions : a memoir / Suzanne Farrell Smith.

Publication Info. Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  153.12 FARRELL    Check Shelf
Description 152 pages ; 23 cm
Summary "Suzanne Farrell Smith's father was killed by a drunk driver when she was six, and a devastating fire nearly destroyed her house when she was eight. She remembers those two--and only those two--events from her first nearly twelve years of life. While her three older sisters hold on to rich and rewarding memories of their father, Smith recalls nothing of him. Her entire childhood was, seemingly, erased. In The Memory Sessions, Smith attempts to excavate lost childhood memories. She puts herself through multiple therapies and exercises, including psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, somatic experiencing, and acupuncture. She digs for clues in her mother's long-stored boxes. She creates--with objects, photographs, and captions--a physical timeline to compensate for the one that's missing in her memory. She travels to San Diego, where her family vacationed with her father right before he died. She researches, interviews, and meditates, all while facing down the two traumatic memories that defined her early life. The result is an experimental memoir that upends our understanding of the genre. Rather than recount a childhood, The Memory Sessions attempts to create one from research, archives, imagination, and the memories of others. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents The bridge -- A peculiar darkness -- To light.
Subject Farrell Smith, Suzanne -- Childhood and youth.
Farrell Smith, Suzanne -- Mental health.
Memory disorders -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Autobiography -- Authorship -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.
Psychic trauma in children -- Case studies.
Fathers -- Death -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.
Fires -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.
Fathers -- Death -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00921870
Fires -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00925709
Memory disorders -- Patients. (OCoLC)fst01425936
Mental health. (OCoLC)fst01016339
Psychic trauma in children. (OCoLC)fst01081227
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
ISBN 9781684481477 (cloth : alkaline paper)
1684481473 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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