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Life Inside

By Mindy Lewis

Life Inside Social Sciences

Life Inside

By Mindy Lewis

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The patient is an ascetically pretty 151/2-year-old white female. She is intelligent, fearful, extremely anxious, and depressed. Her rage is poorly controlled and inappropriately expressed. "Diagnostic Impression: Program for social recovery in a supportive and structured environment appears favorable." Life Inside In 1967, three months before her sixteenth birthday, Mindy Lewis was sent to a state psychiatric hospital by court order. She had been skipping school, smoking pot, and listening to too much Dylan. Her mother, at a loss for what else to do, decided that Mindy remain in state custody until she turned eighteen and became a legal, law-abiding, "healthy" adult. "Life Inside" is Mindy's story about her coming-of-age during those tumultuous years. In honest, unflinching prose, she paints a richly textured portrait of her stay on a psychiatric ward -- the close bonds and rivalries among adolescent patients, the politics and routines of institutional life, the extensive use of medication, and the prevalence of life-altering misdiagnoses. But this memoir also takes readers on a journey of recovery as Lewis describes her emergence into adulthood and her struggle to transcend the stigma of institutionalization. Bracingly told, and often terrifying in its truths," Life Inside" is a life-affirming memoir that informs as it inspires.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2003-11-04
Publication Date:
2003-11-04
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0743411501
ISBN13:
9780743411509
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
313 g
Height:
135 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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