by Jeanette Mason

Introduction From the very heart of trauma, a memoir, that takes the reader deep into the internal landscape of terror. In the company of the words of one who knows, the isolation ends. Solace, comfort and hope are found on the roadway out of the horror of this very unusual human experience. The work is drawn, not from memory, but was written as it happened, in the first hours and days, then weeks and months of a horrific trauma, so that the resulting manuscript revolves around the details with an immediacy never before published. The author witnessed her loved one do a swan dive from their bedroom balcony to his death below, on the streets of Manhattan. The taking of life by one we love and treasure not only plunges us into a nightmare from which there appears to be no exit, but creates an emotional state of chaos unparalleled in human experience. Herbert Hendin, MD, the Executive Director of the American Association for the Prevention of Suicide describes this state as 'equal to that suffered by those who survived the dropping of the bomb in Hiroshima and those who survived the holocaust.' It also finds a market in the helping professions where there is longing to understand exactly what the trauma sufferer experiences. This is a poetic treatise and narrative non-fiction integrated with how-to. From the unique perspective of a survivor who is also a mental health professional, combining art and clinical skill for healing. It contains, however, invaluable, tried and true instructional information in the form of first person experiential narrative.

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