The Last Asylum (eBook, ePUB)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Books Ltd (Taylor, Barbara) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor´s haunting memoir of her journey through the UK mental health system. A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE In July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what had once been England´s largest psychiatric institution: Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital. This searingly honest, thought-provoking and beautifully written memoir is the story of the author´s madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth century. It is a meditation on her own experience of breakdown and healing, but also that of the millions of other people who have suffered, are suffering, will suffer mental illness. ´Personal story, psychoanalytic process, the experience of madness, the feel of being an inpatient in the last days of Friern, the history of the asylum . . . A beautiful memoir, engrossing´ Independent ´Moving, brave and intelligent´ Susan Hill, The Times ´Dazzling. A great achievement, full of life and hope´ Sunday Telegraph Barbara Taylor´s previous books include an award-winning study of nineteenth-century socialist feminism, Eve and the New Jerusalem ; an intellectual biography of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft; and On Kindness , a defence of fellow feeling co-written with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. She is a longstanding editor of the leading history journal, History Workshop Journal , and a director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. She teaches History and English at Queen Mary University of London.
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