Forgetting Dad

Forgetting Dad

"If your father no longer remembers you, does he stop being your father?"
  • 2008
  • 1 hr 24 min
  •  6.2  (11)
  •   Released

A man suffers a minor car accident, and a week later constructs a new identity, claiming he can't "remember" being a father. Nearly twenty years later, his amnesia persists, yet no brain damage or physical cause are ever found. Enthralling and thought-provoking, "Forgetting Dad" offers an award-winning case study of dissociation, parental abandonment, and family enmenshment in mental illness.

Forgetting Dad
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Description
A man suffers a minor car accident, and a week later constructs a new identity, claiming he can't "remember" being a father. Nearly twenty years later, his amnesia persists, yet no brain damage or physical cause are ever found. Enthralling and thought-provoking, "Forgetting Dad" offers an award-winning case study of dissociation, parental abandonment, and family enmenshment in mental illness.
  • Release Date
    2008
  • Runtime
    1 hr 24 min
  • Language
    de
  • Rating
    6.2  (11)