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Lovebroken

Finley de Witt

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A memoir about the lifelong effects of repressed childhood trauma, complex family relationships, and the
dangers of ill-informed treatment.
Written by someone who is both a trauma survivor and a trauma expert.
For anyone who has ever struggled with their mental health, there is hope and insight in this book. By the end
readers will have learnt about psychiatry, bodies, failed friendships and relationships, and what trauma does
to our minds.

Have you ever struggled with your mental health, your terrible relatives or a dysfunctional relationship? Or
simply wondered what the hell is wrong with you? This story is for you.

Finley recounts her chaotic life with deadpan humour and honesty, wryly embracing her colourful lovers and a
series of futile attempts to fix her. When a catastrophic encounter in France sends her into meltdown, she
winds up receiving daily psychoanalysis on the NHS with a cast of unsettling characters - mainly the therapists.
On leaving hospital, Finley stitches her life back together, living for a short time with a Bristol theologian before
finding domestic bliss with a transgender civil servant. A cutting-edge approach to mental illness eventually
leads her to a key revelation about her past, and she finally understands herself through the lens of her history.
Aware at last of what she has survived, she faces an agonising decision about her future.

Trauma has never been so funny or so shocking.

Finley de Witt is a writer, bodyworker and trauma specialist.

Finley de Witt is a writer and trauma specialist with over thirty years’ experience of working with minds and
bodies. After graduating from Oxbridge, they studied bodywork and mental health. They are a psychiatric
system survivor, and use their transformative journey of recovery to offer a message of hope to others.

Publication Date: 28th March 2024 £12.99 ISBN: 9781805142256
Thema subject category: DNC – Memoirs
paperback 216 x 138 mm 320 pp Portrait Author location: Hastings

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