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Arrested Development: Britney Spears’ Memoir Is a Survivor’s Tale of Generational Trauma, Psychiatric Abuse, and Resilience

Mad in America

It is also a rarity: documentation of psychiatric abuse on a prominent, mainstream platform. Her story confirms the pernicious and long-term effects of intergenerational trauma, alcoholism, and divorce on everyone in a family, especially “the identified patient.” And it isn’t pretty. But the impact of the book goes beyond that.