The Inheritance of Shame

A powerful LGBTQ memoir of survival, trauma, and the unbreakable will to reclaim identity. At twenty-three, Peter Gajdics entered what he thought was therapy. What followed was six harrowing years of forced "conversion" under the control of a rogue psychiatrist, a man who used primal scream sessions, psychiatric drugs and cult-like tactics to try to erase Peter's homosexuality. Isolated in a makeshift group home with other patients, Peter was pressured to reject his real parents, obey "Daddy" an