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Anorexia Biography Mentally ill Mentally ill Biography Patients Biography Psychiatric hospital patients Psychiatric hospital patients Biography Psychiatric hospitals New York (N.Y.) History Psychotherapy patients Psychotherapy patients Biography Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.) HistoryPenney, Darby.
Summary: Foreword / Robert Whitaker -- 1. He took them on their last walk -- 2. Who were the people that went to Willard and why did they go there? --3. How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- 4. In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- 5. Children were buried and she knit her life away -- 6. Like a fly in a spider...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 PENAviv, Rachel
Summary: In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022