Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir Do-It-Yourself and for readers of Hilary

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Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir Do-It-Yourself and for readers of HilaryA 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