Title: The inheritance of shame
Description: The Inheritance of Shame details the six years author Peter Gajdics spent 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--Gajdics' story explores the universal themes of childhood trauma, oppression, and intergenerational pain. Told over a period of decades, the book 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.
Subjects: Case studies, Gay men, Family, Family relationships, Sexual reorientation programs, Biography, LGBTQ conversion therapy, LGBTQ biography and memoir, collection:randy_shilts_award=finalist, Gay men, biography, Canada, biography, Gays, family relationships, Sexual orientation, Gajdics, Peter, 1964-, Gajdics, Peter, 1964- -- Family, Gay men -- Canada -- Biography, Gay men -- Family relationships -- Case studies, Sexual reorientation programs -- Case studies
Places: Canada
People: Peter Gajdics (1964-)