@article{ref1,
title="Childhood interrupted: a story of loss, separation, and reconciliation",
journal="Journal of loss and trauma",
year="2016",
author="O'Connell, Noel Patrick",
volume="21",
number="3",
pages="225-234",
abstract="This essay presents a story of personal loss and childhood trauma experienced by the author in 1968. Written in autoethnographic form, the author narrates a particular time in his life when he lost his hearing and subsequently experienced &quot;disrupted attachment&quot;(Becker, 1997) caused by forced separation from family on the day he began life at a residential school for deaf children. Forty-six years later, the author weaves together a narrative of loss and trauma followed by his own reflections, showing how he used writing conversation as a source of healing that allowed him reconcile with his past.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1532-5024",
doi="10.1080/15325024.2015.1048151",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2015.1048151"
}