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The last asylum: a memoir of madness in our times

By: Publication details: University of Chicago Press 2015 ChicagoDescription: xx, 295 pISBN:
  • 9780226273921
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.2109421 T2L2
Summary: In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor’s world contracted around her illness. Eventually, her struggles were severe enough to lead to her admission to what had once been England’s largest psychiatric institution, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in North London. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo20424748.html
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 25-B / Slot 1161 (0 Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 362.2109421 T2L2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 192813

1. Beginning 2. History 3.Spain 4.Genius 5.Dead babies 6.God 7.Sex 8.Hunger 9.Filth 10.Crisis 11.Women 12.Bad dreaming 13.Inferno 14.The Asylum 15.First Day 16.In the bin 17.Psychoanalysis and psychiatry 18.Friendship 19.Mad women 20.Day patient 21.The hostel 22.Change 23.Separation 24.Cure 25.Stories 26.Endings.

In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor’s world contracted around her illness. Eventually, her struggles were severe enough to lead to her admission to what had once been England’s largest psychiatric institution, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in North London.

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo20424748.html

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