“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” Sigmund Freud. My story began more than 50 years ago. At the age of 13, I began refusing food, and my weight dropped dramatically. This was seen as wayward, even wicked, behaviour. Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT), a primitive and brutal practice in the 1950s, failed to cure my mysterious condition. Partly to protect my […]
One of the catalysts for my new novel, A Dangerous Daughter, was the discovery that an academic had unearthed a letter, which she rightly suspected was about me. It was written in 1957 by the analyst who saved my life, Dr Ivy Bennett, I agreed to be interviewed for the academic’s thesis on psychoanalysis: Interview with Christine Brett Vickers, LaTrobe […]
Imagine being told as a child struggling with a crippling eating disorder that you are “naughty” and “disobedient” because you refuse to eat. Being told that “you cannot be trusted, that you are manipulative, that you are selfish, that you are vain and that you are a burden on your family and the healthcare system”. This quote is drawn […]
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