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Irritable hearts : a PTSD love story / Mac McClelland.
- Title
- Irritable hearts : a PTSD love story / Mac McClelland.
- Author
- McClelland, Mac
- Publication
- New York, New York : Flatiron Books, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Request in advance | RC552.P67 M33 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 308 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In 2010, human rights reporter Mac McClelland left Haiti after covering the devastation of the earthquake. Back home, she finds herself imagining vivid scenes of violence and can't sleep or stop crying. It becomes clear that she is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, triggered by her trip and seemingly exacerbated by her experiences in the other charged places she'd reported from. The bewilderment about this sudden loss of self-control is magnified by her feelings for Nico, a French soldier she met in Haiti, who despite their brief connection seems to have found a place in her confused heart. With ... fearlessness, McClelland sets out to repair her broken psyche"--
- Subject
- McClelland, Mac > Mental health
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
- Journalism
- Interpersonal Relations
- Earthquakes
- PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder > Patients > United States > Biography
- Journalists > United States > Biography
- Earthquakes > Psychological aspects
- Man-woman relationships
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical
- United States
- Personal Narratives
- Haiti
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-305).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781250052896 (hardcover) :
- 1250052890 (hardcover)
- 9781250053497 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014034163
- OCLC
- 889688480
- SCSB-11824847
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library