Voluntary Madness My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
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Norah Vincent has always suffered from severe depression, and after 18 months of living her life as a man for a book project, she unravelled. Upon the advice of her therapist, she committed herself to a locked mental institution. From this raw and overwhelming experience came her next book idea. She would get healthy and go back in as a patient to study the effect of treatment on the depressed and insane on the mental health wards of America. In a journey that takes her from an underfunded inner-city hospital to a facility in the Midwest and finally an upscale spa-like retreat down south, Norah analyzes the impact of institutionalization on the unwell, the centrality and tyranny of drugs-as-treatment, and the dysfunctional dynamic between caregivers and patients. Norah also exposes her personal struggle with depression and with great empathy describes her relationships with fellow inmates as well as the doctors and the nurses. She applies her brilliant mind to the methodologies that guide these strange, often scary, and mostly bizarre places. Deeply humane, harrowing yet brilliantly written and darkly comic, Vincent s new book promises to be even more controversial, rivet
Author: Norah Vincent
Format: Paperback, 304 pages, 154mm x 232mm, 414 g
Published: 2009, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: General
Description
Norah Vincent has always suffered from severe depression, and after 18 months of living her life as a man for a book project, she unravelled. Upon the advice of her therapist, she committed herself to a locked mental institution. From this raw and overwhelming experience came her next book idea. She would get healthy and go back in as a patient to study the effect of treatment on the depressed and insane on the mental health wards of America. In a journey that takes her from an underfunded inner-city hospital to a facility in the Midwest and finally an upscale spa-like retreat down south, Norah analyzes the impact of institutionalization on the unwell, the centrality and tyranny of drugs-as-treatment, and the dysfunctional dynamic between caregivers and patients. Norah also exposes her personal struggle with depression and with great empathy describes her relationships with fellow inmates as well as the doctors and the nurses. She applies her brilliant mind to the methodologies that guide these strange, often scary, and mostly bizarre places. Deeply humane, harrowing yet brilliantly written and darkly comic, Vincent s new book promises to be even more controversial, rivet
Voluntary Madness My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin