Wounded I Am More Awake

by Lieblich, Julia; Boskailo, Esad

• ISBN13: 9780826518262
• ISBN10: 0826518265
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-24
• Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr

Summary

Wounded I Am More Awakefollows the story of Esad Boskailo, a doctor who survives six concentration camps in Bosnia and emerges with powerful new lessons for healing in an age of genocide. This gripping account raises questions for healers, survivors, and readers striving to understand the reality of war and the aftermath of terror. Is it possible to find meaning after enduring crimes against humanity? Can people heal after trauma? Human rights journalist Julia Lieblich takes the reader through Boskailo's early years under Tito to the wars when friends turned on friends. She documents his harrowing experiences in the camps, where the men he once joined for coffee murder his best friend from childhood. But the story does not end there. Boskailo moves to the United States and decides to become a psychiatrist so he can guide survivors through the long-term process of restoring hope. Today, inspired by the late psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, Boskailo uses his own experience to help patients mourn their losses and find meaning in the aftermath of terror.

Author Biography

Julia Lieblich is an award-winning human rights journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Time, Life, and Ms. A former religion writer for the Chicago Tribune and the Associated Press, she is Assistant Professor of Journalism at Loyola University Chicago. Esad Bokailo is Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix and Associate Director of Psychiatric Residency Training at the Maricopa Integrated Health System.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
The Story of My Life	p. 3
Is this Bosnia?	p. 8
The Night is So Unreal	p. 13
How Can This Happen Here?	p. 16
The Thin Air of Hope	p. 29
Beyond Our God	p. 38
This Corner of Grief	p. 47
Before the Bone Cracks	p. 59
Back Once More	p. 72
The Hardest Strife	p. 79
You've Listened to My Words	p. 85
Only Remembering	p. 88
An Island in the Heart of the World	p. 101
The Heart of This Sadness	p. 113
Here I am without Myself	p. 122
Take No Pity	p. 128
The Dead Who are Living	p. 139
Once Again among You	p. 143
Evening Stroll	p. 152
Postscript	p. 157
Notes	p. 159
Index	p. 171
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