Maude Julien
Maude Julien est aujourd’hui une thérapeute reconnue, spécialisée dans les traumatismes et l’aide contre toutes les formes d’emprise.
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DERRIERE LA GRILLE
Auteur
Parution :
24/09/2014
Collection :
Essais - Documents
BEHIND THE METAL GATE
Rights sold to Germany (Droemer Knaur), Japan (Wave Shuppan), Poland (Sonia Draga) and Portugal (Guerra e Paz)
More than 50 years on, Maude Julien remembers the sound of the lock as the gate to the house closed. Her father had just bought this gloomy place in the Saint-Omer region to shut himself away with his wife and child. The then three-year-old Maude lived in isolation, never going to school or making friends. Under her jailers’ constant vigilance. She was locked away mentally too because her dominating, visionary father wanted to make a “supra-human” of her.
Much later Maude understood how her father, a high ranking dignitary in an esoteric Masonic group, dreamed up a fantastical plan to turn her into a so-called “being of light”, the keeper of a regeneration project… Her whole life was reduced to the struggle to become a superior being, learning to overcome fear, privations, pain, loneliness... How to break away from such a stranglehold? Where to find the strength to escape such indoctrination? Or just the intellectual courage to fight it in silence?
At 18 Maude managed to escape her childhood prison. “I was lucky, I met very kind, humane people who showed me there could be another way of life,” she says. She herself is now a “helper” and, to her patients, she genuinely is a bearer of light.
A therapist trained in various techniques, Maude Julien holds three specialised university degrees. For the last ten years she has been doing anthropological research on the consequences of acculturation among Australian aborigines. A frequent contributor to radio and television, she has been a therapist to hundreds of patients since 1995.
Rights sold to Germany (Droemer Knaur), Japan (Wave Shuppan), Poland (Sonia Draga) and Portugal (Guerra e Paz)
More than 50 years on, Maude Julien remembers the sound of the lock as the gate to the house closed. Her father had just bought this gloomy place in the Saint-Omer region to shut himself away with his wife and child. The then three-year-old Maude lived in isolation, never going to school or making friends. Under her jailers’ constant vigilance. She was locked away mentally too because her dominating, visionary father wanted to make a “supra-human” of her.
Much later Maude understood how her father, a high ranking dignitary in an esoteric Masonic group, dreamed up a fantastical plan to turn her into a so-called “being of light”, the keeper of a regeneration project… Her whole life was reduced to the struggle to become a superior being, learning to overcome fear, privations, pain, loneliness... How to break away from such a stranglehold? Where to find the strength to escape such indoctrination? Or just the intellectual courage to fight it in silence?
At 18 Maude managed to escape her childhood prison. “I was lucky, I met very kind, humane people who showed me there could be another way of life,” she says. She herself is now a “helper” and, to her patients, she genuinely is a bearer of light.
A therapist trained in various techniques, Maude Julien holds three specialised university degrees. For the last ten years she has been doing anthropological research on the consequences of acculturation among Australian aborigines. A frequent contributor to radio and television, she has been a therapist to hundreds of patients since 1995.
Plus de cinquante ans après, Maude Julien se souvient encore du bruit du verrou, quand la grille s’est refermée sur elle. Son père venait d’acheter une bâtisse lugubre, fl anquée d’un parc, dans la région de Saint-Omer. Maude, alors âgée de trois ans, y vivra cloîtrée, sans jamais aller à l’école, sans jamais avoir d’amis. Enfermée mentalement aussi, car le patriarche veut faire de sa fi lle une « supra-humaine ». Elle doit apprendre à surmonter la peur, les privations, la douleur, la solitude pour être capable de réaliser la mission à laquelle il la destine. Longtemps plus tard, elle comprendra que son père, haut dignitaire d’une obédience maçonnique ésotérique, avait échafaudé un projet vertigineux dans lequel elle tenait le rôle central.
Comment se défaire d’une emprise aussi extrême ? Où trouver la force d’échapper à un tel embrigadement ?
À dix-huit ans, Maude a réussi à quitter la prison de son enfance. Puis, au terme d’un long travail, à conquérir sa liberté.
320 pages
Format :
135 x 215 mm
EAN :
9782234077478
Prix :
23.00 €
