by Julie Gregory · Arrow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099466291
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«Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood» is Julie Gregory's autobiography, published by Arrow in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Julie Gregory recounts how her mother invented illnesses and subjected her to unnecessary X-rays, medication, and surgery. Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a hidden form of child abuse, marked her childhood; Julie Gregory managed to escape and rebuild her life.
The work was first published in 2003 in the US; the Arrow Books edition is from 2004. Names of people outside the family were changed to protect their identity.
Ideal for readers of memoirs and true stories of overcoming adversity, and for those interested in the psychology of child abuse.
