The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781934137079 (1934137073)
Publish date: January 1st 2008
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Pages no: 205
Edition language: English
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...
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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