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Maude Julien

    January 1, 1957

    Maude Julien has dedicated over two decades to therapy, specializing in trauma and the intricacies of mental and behavioral manipulation. Through her memoir, which serves as an "escape manual," she recounts a childhood marked by extreme parental control. Her work delves into the profound scars left by abuse, offering a powerful narrative of resilience and the arduous journey toward reclaiming one's autonomy and finding freedom.

    Maude Julien
    Essais - Documents: Derriere la grille
    The only girl in the world
    • The only girl in the world

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape. Maude still remembers the sound of the gate being locked behind her. She was three years old when they moved into the secluded manor and in the coming years, she would only be allowed out a handful of times. Her parents belonged to a fanatical Masonic order. She followed a strict schedule of study, hard labour and endless drills designed to 'eliminate weakness', such as holding an electric fence without flinching and sitting in a rat-infested cellar. But despite their chilling psychological control, her parents could not control her inner life. Befriending animals on the lonely estate and characters in the books she read, Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love her parents forbade.

      The only girl in the world
      4.0
    • Essais - Documents: Derriere la grille

      • 312 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Plus de cinquante ans apres, Maude Julien se souvient encore du bruit du verrou, quand la grille s'est refermee sur elle. Son pere venait d'acheter une batisse lugubre, fl anquee d'un parc, dans la region de Saint-Omer. Maude, alors agee de trois ans, y vivra cloitree, sans jamais aller a l'ecole, sans jamais avoir d'amis. Enfermee mentalement aussi, car le patriarche veut faire de sa fi lle une supra-humaine . Elle doit apprendre a surmonter la peur, les privations, la douleur, la solitude pour etre capable de realiser la mission a laquelle il la destine. Longtemps plus tard, elle comprendra que son pere, haut dignitaire d'une obedience maconnique esoterique, avait echafaude un projet vertigineux dans lequel elle tenait le role central. Comment se defaire d'une emprise aussi extreme ? Ou trouver la force d'echapper a un tel embrigadement ? A dix-huit ans, Maude a reussi a quitter la prison de son enfance. Puis, au terme d'un long travail, a conquerir sa liberte.

      Essais - Documents: Derriere la grille