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You Know Where to Find Me

This novel delves into the lives of individuals entangled in a complex web of hidden truths and deceit. The story unfolds as the characters navigate through a world where trust is scarce and the truth is elusive. more

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Rachel Cohn
Rachel Cohn

Rachel Cohn is an American author born on December 14, 1968. She is known for her works in young adult literature and novels, which have gained popularity among readers. more

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“To speak of creation, There is always a guilt that throbs every artist’s heart on taking the credit of a piece of art that the creative force in the universe has thrusted inside of a human heart and stretched one’s hand towards building sand castles and lines on the ocean. It’s surreal, neither to be seen or to be saved. But if it is both “seen and saved” it could mean the force was strong enough to indulge in the play of the world, to rip apart the womb of the heart of a man and come out, to stretch its wings and break the cage, to scream till your voice reaches the moon. In all such cases it’s always a mystical force that creates art and never the artist.”

“SELFHOOD AND DISSOCIATION The patient with DID or dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS) has used their capacity to psychologically remove themselves from repetitive and inescapable traumas in order to survive that which could easily lead to suicide or psychosis, and in order to eke some growth in what is an unsafe, frequently contradictory and emotionally barren environment. For a child dependent on a caregiver who also abuses her, the only way to maintain the attachment is to block information about the abuse from the mental mechanisms that control attachment and attachment behaviour.10 Thus, childhood abuse is more likely to be forgotten or otherwise made inaccessible if the abuse is perpetuated by a parent or other trusted caregiver. In the dissociative individual, ‘there is no uniting self which can remember to forget’. Rather than use repression to avoid traumatizing memories, he/she resorts to alterations in the self ‘as a central and coherent organization of experience. . . DID involves not just an alteration in content but, crucially, a change in the very structure of consciousness and the self’ (p. 187).29 There may be multiple representations of the self and of others. Middleton, Warwick. "Owning the past, claiming the present: perspectives on the treatment of dissociative patients." Australasian Psychiatry 13.1 (2005): 40-49.”

“If you are right, then everything we learned before and all the books we have, are wrong", said my students of biology in a class on academic writing, with expressions of trauma at what I was telling them. "But we use the same books as the students in the United States" they continued, trying to stop themselves from seeing the obvious truth. Because for those who have lived an entire life as a lie, the truth is indeed traumatic. You need a very high level of sanity to confront it, which is why I find it to be a funny coincidence when the crazy ones tell you that you are crazy for seeing the truth that they themselves are too afraid to analyze. They don't want to analyze it because, well, they may realize that the truth is true. They can't deal with such outcome. They would rather see you dead first.”