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100	1		_aAnderson, Frank G., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aTo be loved : _ba story of truth, trauma, and transformation / _cFrank G. Anderson, MD.
263			_a2405
264		1	_aEau Claire, WI : _bBridge City Books, _c[2024]
264		4	_c©2024
300			_axxiii, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (chiefly color) ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Trauma blocks love. Love heals trauma. Frank was just six years old when he learned there was something wrong with him. Seriously wrong. But no one told him what it was. Instead, between attending weekly therapy sessions, navigating the passion and violence of his home life, and reading between the lines of dark family secrets, he was left to figure out for himself what the world expected him to be. Despite an unstable childhood, his remarkable intelligence, caring nature, and desperation for love and acceptance carried him from the top of his high school class to the elite residency program at Harvard University, where he ultimately became one of the world's leading experts in the treatment of trauma. Along the way, his encounters with those suffering from abuse, addiction, and mental illness inspired a sense of purpose... and an earth-shattering awakening of his authentic self. Ignited by this newfound identity, Frank embarked on a profound, sometimes painful, and redemptive journey that brought the love and acceptance he always longed for. In To Be Loved, renowned trauma expert Dr. Frank G. Anderson shares the complicated experience of growing up gay in an Italian-American home that was at once fiercely loving and culturally close-knit while at the same time unaccepting, abusive, and rife with secret shame. With compassion, humor, and disarming honesty, Frank invites the reader into his formative experiences: coming out amid the LGBTQ+ carnival atmosphere of 1990s Provincetown, finding love and forming a family within the staid Boston suburbs, and coming home to confront his family's legacy of abuse. By forging paths for forgiveness, he found that his truth and tenacious spirit were stronger than his trauma"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aPreface : the journey -- About the to be loved playlist -- "You're not going to school today" -- Mom and Dad -- The kids -- Alla famiglia -- Made it to "normal" -- For the love of doctor -- Happily ever after? -- Harvard, revealed -- Moving out -- Finding Michael -- Chickens and children -- Fathers and sons -- Let it go -- Forgiveness, finally -- Full circle -- The funeral -- Epilogue : let me be Frank.
600	1	0	_aAnderson, Frank G.
650		0	_aPsychiatrists _zUnited States _vBiography. _989090
650		0	_aGay men _zUnited States _vBiography. _974069
650		0	_aPsychologically abused children _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aComing out (Sexual orientation) _xPsychological aspects. _981079
655		0	_aLGBTQ+.
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