Life After Death
eBook - ePub

Life After Death

Surviving Suicide

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Life After Death

Surviving Suicide

About this book

An intertwined tale of a boy's world shattered by suicide and a man's story rewritten by neuroscience. When Richard Brockman found his mother's body, the simple narrative of his childhood ended. Life After Death tells the story of a boy who died and of a man who survived when the boy and the man are one and the same. It tells a very personal—yet tragically common—story of irredeemable loss. It tells the story of story itself. How story forms. How it grows. How it changes. How it can be broken. And finally, how sometimes it can be repaired. Now an expert in genetics, epigenetics, and the biology of attachment, Brockman chronicles his evolution from a child overwhelmed by trauma to a man who has struggled to reclaim his past. He lays bare the core of one who is both victim and healer. By weaving together childhood despair and clinical knowledge, Brockman shows how the shattered pieces of the self—though never the same and not without scars—can sometimes be put back together again.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword: Two Stories
  7. Chapter 1: “What Are You Thinking?” Take One
  8. Chapter 2: “What Are You Thinking?” Take Two
  9. Chapter 3: Herbs
  10. Chapter 4: Two Doors
  11. Chapter 5: What Comes Next
  12. Chapter 6: DeKalb Avenue
  13. Chapter 7: The Big Orange
  14. Chapter 8: Troubled Sleep
  15. Chapter 9: A Knock on the Door
  16. Chapter 10: His Mother’s Voice
  17. Chapter 11: The Savoy Ballroom
  18. Chapter 12: Paternity
  19. Chapter 13: So When You Were Born
  20. Chapter 14: Bootstraps
  21. Chapter 15: Cortisol
  22. Chapter 16: The Epigenotype
  23. Chapter 17: The Great White
  24. Chapter 18: Bacon and Eggs—Take One
  25. Chapter 19: Bacon and Eggs—Take Two
  26. Chapter 20: The Still Face
  27. Chapter 21: Electric Eels
  28. Chapter 22: Holding Her Hand
  29. Chapter 23: America
  30. Chapter 24: Another Mother
  31. Chapter 25: He Had a Hat
  32. Chapter 26: Two Mothers—Take One
  33. Chapter 27: Two Mothers—Take Two
  34. Chapter 28: The Pneumogastric
  35. Chapter 29: Happy Birthday
  36. Chapter 30: Fire
  37. Chapter 31: Where Proper Story Starts
  38. Chapter 32: Castration Anxiety
  39. Chapter 33: How I Learned to Drive
  40. Chapter 34: Do Not Enter
  41. Chapter 35: Papier-mâchÊ
  42. Chapter 36: Tying the Knot
  43. Chapter 37: Guarding
  44. Chapter 38: Sickness Pain
  45. Chapter 39: Glass Slippers
  46. Chapter 40: What Did You See? Take One
  47. Chapter 41: What Did You See? Take Two
  48. Chapter 42: Troubled Sleep Take Two
  49. Chapter 43: A Dog
  50. Chapter 44: The School Bus
  51. Chapter 45: Pennsylvania Station
  52. Chapter 46: Fresh Squeezed
  53. Chapter 47: Vows
  54. Chapter 48: Time Has Come
  55. Chapter 49: At the Corner of Norman Rockwell and Main—Take One
  56. Chapter 50: Road Kill
  57. Chapter 51: The Oddball Paradigm
  58. Chapter 52: Alchemy
  59. Chapter 53: Apples
  60. Chapter 54: The Program
  61. Chapter 55: Cinderella
  62. Chapter 56: At the Corner of Norman Rockwell and Main—Take Two
  63. Acknowledgments
  64. About the Author
  65. Endnotes