Title The memory sessions : a memoir / Suzanne Farrell Smith

Published Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (152 pages) Contents The bridge. Television ; TIme of death ; Blaze of Gloria ; Table for five ; Bridges and tunnels -- A peculiar darkness. Going on a hunt ; Of myth and memory -- To light. Another version of us ; To make one's way through the earth ; The death thing ; Everything reaches to light ; Light 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 Notes Electronic version record 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 Childhood and youth of a person Fathers -- Death -- Psychological aspects Fires -- Psychological aspects Memory disorders -- Patients Mental health Psychic trauma in children United States Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Case studies Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Bucknell University Press. ISBN 1684481511 9781684481514

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