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The Art of Misdiagnosis : a Memoir by Brandeis, Gayle (author.) is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

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Award-winning Novelist And Poet Gayle Brandeis's Wrenching Memoir Of Her Complicated Family History And Her Mother's Suicide. Gayle Brandeis's Mother Disappeared Just After Gayle Gave Birth To Her Youngest Child. Several Days Later, Her Body Was Found: She Had Hanged Herself In The Utility Closet Of A Pasadena Parking Garage. In This Searing, Formally Inventive Memoir, Gayle Describes The Dissonance Between Being A New Mother, A Sweet-smelling Infant At Her Chest, And A Grieving Daughter Trying To Piece Together What Happened, Who Her Mother Was, And All She Had And Hadn't Understood About Her. Around The Time Of Her Suicide, Gayle's Mother Had Been Working On A Documentary About The Rare Illnesses She Thought Ravaged Her Family: Porphyria And Ehlers-danlos Syndrome. In The Art Of Misdiagnosis, Taking Its Title From Her Mother's Documentary, Gayle Braids Together Her Own Narration Of The Charged Weeks Surrounding Her Mother's Suicide, Transcripts Of Her Mother's Documentary, Research Into Delusional And Factitious Disorders, And Gayle's Own Experience With Misdiagnosis And Illness (both Fabricated And Real). Slowly And Expertly, The Art Of Misdiagnosis Peels Back The Complicated La

Who reads The Art of Misdiagnosis : a Memoir?

Author

Brandeis, Gayle (author.)

Publisher

Beacon Press,

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807044902

Category

self-help

Subjects

Psychology, Memoir, Medical

Rating

4.3 / 5 (100 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14