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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic (Forever Faithful) - Community Reviews back

by Darby Penney, Peter Stastny, Robert Whitaker, Lisa Rinzler
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Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it 15 years ago
This book is an eye-opening and disturbing look into the world of mental health hospitals. From their beginnings in the well-considered British Quaker "moral therapy" treatments (that worked), United States mental hospitals became warehouses for people who were homeless, in crisis, had a language b...
Osho
Osho rated it 16 years ago
Terribly disappointing because it could have been wonderful, but instead suffers from repetitive, barely-restrained vitriol. The book's ostensible focus is on reconstructing, from suitcases left in the attic, the lives of people who were patients at a residential psychiatric hospital. This is an int...
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