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Author Williams, Wendy Patrice

Title Autobiography of a Sea Creature : Healing the Trauma of Infant Surgery / Wendy Patrice Wiliams
Published San Francisco, CA : University of California Health Humanities Press, [2023]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
[2023]

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Description 1 online resource (178 pages): illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Summary "Operated on as an infant, without anesthesia, Wendy P. Williams began life at war with her body. "There were tubes everywhere, in and out of every opening," her mother reminded her on every anniversary of her surgery. Autobiography of a Sea Creature takes readers on Williams' difficult sensory journey toward healing, as she communes along the way with horseshoe crabs, dolphins, and other marine life that taught her the restorative power of beauty, resilience, and interdependence. At times luscious and lyrical, at other times analytical and reflective, this literary memoir portrays the dissociative experience of trauma and the roots of self-destructive cycles, as well as the tragic results of medical beliefs at the time that infants could not feel pain. Autobiography of a Sea Creature is both a love letter to the earth and a hopeful testament of humans' capacity to heal our deepest wounds."-- Publisher's description
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Williams, Wendy Patrice
Newborn infants.
Infants.
Self-care, Health.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Infant, Newborn
Infant
Self Care
Resilience, Psychological
Adult Survivors of Child Adverse Events
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Pyloric Stenosis -- surgery
infants.
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse. distributor
ISBN 9781735542355
1735542350