A Brain Of My Own

A Memoir About Dissociation Dissolved

Wendy Hoffman

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English

Aeon Books Ltd
31 October 2020

True crime; Organised crime; Abnormal psychology

A Brain of My Own is about slavery, about brains stolen in childhood and before; brains that have been intruded upon, stopped, shrunk, paralysed. We know about the history of people whose bodies were enslaved; but we know barely anything about the victims who appear free but whose brains are invisibly chained. Nor do we know about the international collusion, silence, and apathy that surround this kind of slavery.

A Brain of My Own describes Wendy Hoffman’s final years of attempting escape from the criminal mind control cult into which she had the misfortune of being born. This is her third memoir, and chronicles the final years of reclaiming her brain, including the ongoing abuse and torture during her recovery process. Hoffman describes the ways in which perpetrators manipulate the brain to create amnesiac barriers, methods held secret for generations. She exposes the duplicity of perpetrators functioning as normal people in the ordinary world and what is under their masks. She gives advice about how to spot seemingly helpful people who are actually out to destroy victims of mind control.

This kind of dissociation is difficult to overcome, but the path back to full humanity is possible and happening.

By: Wendy Hoffman
Imprint: Aeon Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 299g
ISBN: 9781912807925
ISBN 10: 1912807920
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 31 October 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Wendy Hoffman has published three memoirs, The Enslaved Queen (Karnac Books, 2014, new edition by Aeon Books, 2019), White Witch in a Black Robe (Karnac Books, 2016, new edition by Aeon Books, 2019) and A Brain of My Own (Aeon Books, 2020, Karnac Books 2023). The Enslaved Queen has been translated and published in Germany (Asanger-Verlag, 2021). Her book of poetry, Forceps, was also published (Karnac books, 2016) along with a book of essays, From the Trenches, written with Dr. Alison Miller (Karnac Books, 2018). Her fourth memoir, After Amnesia, is published on the SmartNews and Survivorship websites (2022). Her poetry book Belonging is forthcoming from Kelsay Books, Fall 2023.