LAGUNA WOODS, Calif., April 17, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In her stirring new book, author Margo Bouer tells a story of an adolescent girl's survival following electric shock treatments to enforce compliance. Released by Xlibris, After Shock - A Memoir: Lost Childhood is a poignant and compelling tome that tells of hope, acceptance, and true love.
In this stark narrative, the girl recounts dysfunctional family dominance that forces her to escape further brain damage, death or suicide. The story moves through her experiences as a child in an adult psychiatric hospital where the patient/staff differences are often blurred. When "disowned and disinherited" by her dysfunctional family, she moves into adulthood and assumes a new identity. She soon acquires a surrogate family, but not for long as she loses them through cancer. Still determined to face a brighter day, she becomes a psychiatric professional nurse, and ultimately achieves a Ph.D. in psychotherapy.
Her professional life involves patient care, psychiatric training for psychiatrists and nurses, psychoanalysis, and sexual abuse by her own therapist. But there is always this dire need to cover up her early history and the daunting implications of possible brain damage from her early electric shock. She marries a gentle physician, and with her own motherhood, finds it imperative to go back to the memories and losses for a reconciliation with her past through successful treatment. Can she ever cope up to live a normal life? Or will she be forever haunted by her dark past? Find out as enthralling events unfold in the deeply inspiring memoir, After Shock - A Memoir: Lost Childhood. For more information, log on to www.Xlibris.com.
About the Author
Margo Bouer is a retired psychotherapist and psychiatric nurse currently residing in Southern California with her husband and pets. She was termed a delinquent, subsequently subjected to electro-convulsive treatments and psychiatric hospitalization as a child. She escaped from her dysfunctional family and forged a life for herself by maturing quickly and surviving in an adult world. She entered the fields of psychiatry and psychoanalytic therapy, but her underlying fear was always having her past exposed. This is the story of a lost childhood due to exposure to shock treatment and a need to survive.
After Shock - A Memoir * by Margo Bouer
Lost Childhood
Publication Date: August 11, 2000
Trade Paperback; $17.84; 168 pages; 978-0-7388-2560-1
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