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Title: Fathom: An Uncovering of Trauma


Author: Lisa Dart


Genre: Psychoanalysis, Memoir, Experimental


Publisher: Ortus Press, an imprint of Free Association Books


Publication: December 5 2019

Availability: Paperback & ebook

ISBN: 9781911383284


Price: £11.99


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Press folder: bit.ly/FathomPR


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Book Description


• Experimental memoir playing with time, memory and style.

• Story of an emotional breakdown, hidden trauma and uncovered memories brought to the

surface through psychoanalysis.


I think I saw a lot of blood.”


When Jenny was four years old, something happened that made her very, very

frightened. Only fragments of the ‘event’ remain –- blue flashing lights, an elephant’s

foot umbrella stand and a thing she cannot say. Jenny’s mind has shut itself off and,

consequently, she has no words for what happened, though she is deeply troubled by

one recurrent thought: ‘I think I saw a lot of blood.’


This is a long and difficult story. It is a story of emotional breakdown, of hidden

trauma, and of hidden memories, brought to the surface and explored through the

work of psychoanalysis. By talking with a psychoanalyst, exploring her feelings and

episodic madness, Jenny starts to understand herself. And by getting back to that

fateful day, she can begin to build herself up from its shatterings.


Much like a kind of detective work to begin with, the narrative unravels the depths

that appear in psychotic breakdown. Fathom, an experimental memoir, has unique

qualities: playing with time, memory and style, it explores the hinterland of the

narrator’s mind. Identity is evoked through three personas of the self: the puppet, the

puppet-master and She-who-knows. Poetic in style, though something of a detective

story, the first-person narrative is richly layered — Plath, Shakespeare, Sophocles and

pop songs all have their place.


Today’s huge interest in mental health and the newly developing market for

experimental writing suggest Fathom would quickly find an audience among therapists

as well as all involved in off-shoot therapeutic practices. Fathom will also be of

immediate interest to anyone having psychoanalysis themselves. Highly concentrated

in 40,000 words, structured in three parts, non-linear in chronology and highly

metaphoric, those interested in experimental books, excited by the play of fact and

imagination and would actively seek out Fathom.




Author Bio


Lisa Dart has a doctorate in Creative Writing from the University of Sussex,

England. She has published poetry, book reviews, creative non-fiction and articles

and has won both the Grolier Prize, USA, and the Aesthetica Prize. Her work has

been published in The British Journal of Psychoanalysis and the International

Journal of Psychotherapy. Her last book, This Thing of Darkness, was given an

Arts Council Award in 2015. Lisa lives in Eastbourne in East Sussex.




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