Voluntary Madness

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Voluntary Madness

Editorial: Vintage

ISBN: 978-00-9951-343-8

ISBN sin guiones: 9780099513438

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 304

Fecha de publicación: 2010-01-07

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Voluntary Madness

Editorial: penguin_books

ISBN: 978-01-4311-685-1

ISBN sin guiones: 9780143116851

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 304

Fecha de publicación: 2009-12-29

Idioma: inglés (Estados Unidos)

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Voluntary Madness

Norah Vincent

Primera publicación: 2010-01-07

In Norah Vincent's acclaimed first book she described how she spent eighteen months disguised as a man, an experience that ended on a locked ward in a psychiatric hospital. She left determined to learn more about the world of psychiatry and to examine whether different mental institutions would offer different solutions to their patients, but rather than researching it as a journalist she chose to experience it as a patient. Her journey begins in a huge inner-city hospital, before moving to the calming green carpet of St Lukes where patients are offered a room of their own and a regular jog in the park. From there she moves to Mobius, and a Buddhist-inspired brand of healing where she is forced to swim through West Coast psychobabble to some unexpected conclusions. The result is a fearless and unprecedented view of mental health care - from the inside out.