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Title: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan ISBN: 0-394-71378-8 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 May, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: nicely researched
Comment: but having read it just this year, it seems a little outdated. I would recommend this book as an introduction to the subject of mental illness, institutionalization etc., but if you know a little more on the subject, skip the book and read something else.
Rating: 3
Summary: True, intimate, and slow
Comment: I think this book shows the reality of liveing with schizophrenia and the feeling that there is no place for you. This book takes you through relaspe and healing periods with the main women character. It also shows the failures in our system. I think the book gets a little slow at points, it is a book you can definately put down, but it does do justice to teaching and learning about life with schizophrenia.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good journalism
Comment: A Pulitzer Prize-winner for General Nonfiction, this is an account of the tragic life of one "Sylvia Frumkin" (a fictitious name), who succumbed to schizophrenia while still an adolescent and spent the next two decades in and out of mental hospitals.
The author (who lived with Frumkin for a time) never appears "on stage" in the book, and restricts herself to just-the-facts third-person narration. A certain moral outrage is evident nonetheless. The mental health industry does not come off well at all (Frumkin's institution is unfavorably compared to the one depicted in "One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest"). It's difficult not to come away with the impression that a little less bureaucratic negligence might have saved Miss Frumkin many wasted years. Fortunately, this is not a one-sided screed (not quite, anyhow): some of these medics and bureaucrats are just doing the best they can with the limited resources on hand.
The prose style is plain and straightforward--maybe a little flat-footed, too. But overall, the book is a good example of how facts can speak for themselves.
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Title: Quiet Room, The:A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by A. Lori/Bennett Schiller ISBN: 0446671339 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: An Unquiet Mind : A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison ISBN: 0679763309 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Voices of Robby Wilde by Elizabeth Kytle, Robert Coles ISBN: 0820317152 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl: The True Story of "Renee" by Marguerite Sechehaye, Grace Rubin-Rabson, Renee ISBN: 0452011337 Publisher: Meridian Books Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: 9 Highland Road : Sane Living for the Mentally Ill by Michael Winerip ISBN: 0679761608 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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