TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Childhood interrupted: a story of loss, separation, and reconciliation
JO  - Journal of loss and trauma
A1  - O'Connell, Noel Patrick
SP  - 225
EP  - 234
VL  - 21
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 "disrupted attachment"(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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1532-5024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2015.1048151
ID  - ref1
ER  -