autopathography

autopathography
(aw.toh.PATH.aw.gruh.fee; TH as in thin)
n.
An autobiography that is inspired by or that focuses on a disease or disorder that afflicts the author. (A blend of autobiography and pathology.)
Example Citation:
Clad in head-to-toe black, Rochelle Newman struts onto a darkened stage, sizes up the audience, then announces matter-of-factly: "I was a fat kid."
It's hard to imagine Newman, a fit 42-year-old with shoulder-length auburn hair, as a "size 14 at age 14" — and equally difficult to picture her as the 90-pound anorexic she soon became. Oddest of all, perhaps, is that Newman has chosen to tell her story not in the form of a mawkish movie of the week or an angry "autopathography" displayed at Borders, but as an unsentimental solo show.
— Lori Gottlieb, "Out of the deep end," Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2003
Earliest Citation:
The Boston Globe makes USA Today founder Al Neuharth's list of the country's 10 best newspapers in his newly released autopathography, "Confessions of an SOB."
— Alex Beam, "Bonfire of the vanity," The Boston Globe, September 25, 1989
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