{"product_id":"lewis-mindy-life-inside-9780743411509","title":"Life Inside","description":"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.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53626513916246,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780743411509_1.jpg?v=1778643696","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/lewis-mindy-life-inside-9780743411509","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}