Denial: A Memoir of Terror
by:
Jessica Stern (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061626661 (006162666X)
Publish date: June 7th 2011
Publisher: Ecco Press
Pages no: 300
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Feminism,
Crime,
Biography Memoir,
True Crime,
Psychology,
Womens,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
When she was fifteen, Stern and her fourteen-year-old sister were raped at gunpoint by a stranger who invaded her house; Stern responded with a kind of emotional freeze that allowed her, years later, to interview terrorists without turning a hair, and which she only even later realized was a result ...
When she was fifteen, Stern and her fourteen-year-old sister were raped at gunpoint by a stranger who invaded her house; Stern responded with a kind of emotional freeze that allowed her, years later, to interview terrorists without turning a hair, and which she only even later realized was a result ...
To be totally honest, this book is very perplexing to me. I understand the author's career and her training/background, but it is very odd to see a story about her rape and subsequent follow up and family reaction written in a detached manner, as though she is a law enforcement officer writing a cas...
This is so not what I thought that it was going to be and I am very happy for that. Stern is musing on denial and its effects with PTSD in rape, war and any other trauma by looking back at the trauma of her own rape and rapist. Dispassionately Passionate is the phrase that kept coming to mind while ...