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Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass
Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass
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Description
A cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and resilience
Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it.
In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transferred, labeled as ""unimproved."" The damage done has haunted her life. Discharged in 1966, after finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer kept her past secret and moved on to graduate from Yale University, raise two children, and become a respected psychotherapist. That is, until 2001, when she reviewed her hospital records and began to remember a broken childhood and the even more broken mental health system of the 1950s and 1960s.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
340
Release Date:
2015-06-01
Publication Date:
2015-06-01
Publisher:
Santa Fe Writer's Project
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1939650267
ISBN13:
9781939650269
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Weight:
429 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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