Consumption (Book I)

Memories of My Childhood

By: Benjamin Power

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Hardcover | 26 September 2024

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292 Pages

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A candid psychiatric autobiography on the guilt, shame, fear, and long-term trauma instigated by parental emotional abuse in a toxic environment of schoolyard bullying, medical malpractice and molestation, and the spiralling personal consequences for a wounded childhood.

Inspired by the writings of Alice Miller, C©sar Tort, and John Modrow, this two-part life history seeks to create a new literary genre of vindictive autobiography, where the painful abuses of my parents are spelled out in full detail, and, contrary to the 'wisdom' of most modern psychological therapies, they are held to account and not forgiven.

I love my Mum and Dad but forgiveness is not a one-way street and they have never assimilated their responsibility, apologised or tried to make things right, instead foisting me with further trauma on the cynical, pseudoscientific victim-blaming of the orthodox psychiatric industry. Though I was raised as a strict Catholic, my writings seek to repudiate the fourth commandment, remembering the words of Friedrich Nietzsche in Twilight of the Idols: "When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet..."

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