The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Begins With Barbara Taylor's Visit To The Innocuously Named Princess Park Manor In Friern Barnet, North London - A Picture Of Luxury And Repose. But This Is The Former Site Of One Of England's Most Infamous Lunatic Asylums, The Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Aslyum At Colney Hatch. Machine Generated Contents Note: Part One -- 1.beginning -- 2.history -- 3.spain -- 4.genius -- 5.dead Babies -- 6.god -- 7.sex -- 8.hunger -- 9.filth -- 10.crisis -- 11.women -- 12.bad Dreaming -- 13.inferno -- Part Two -- 14.the Asylum -- 15.first Day -- 16.in The Bin -- 17.psychoanalysis And Psychiatry -- 18.friendship -- 19.mad Women -- 20.day Patient -- 21.the Hostel -- Part Three -- 22.change -- 23.separation -- 24.cure -- 25.stories -- 26.endings. Barbara Taylor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
Taylor, Barbara, Taylor, Barbara , 1950 April 11-, Mental healthTaylor, Barbara , 1950 April 11-, Friern Hospital., London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch., Institutionalization--history, Hospitals, Psychiatric--history, Commitment of Mentally Ill, Mental Disorders, Women--Mental health, Women--Mental health--Great Britain, Mentally ill--Institutional care, Mentally ill--Institutional care--Great Britain, RC451.4.W6 T39 2014, 2014 E-392, WM 40, 616.890092
Name in long format: | The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times |
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ISBN-10: | 0241145090 |
ISBN-13: | 9780241145098 |
Book language: | en |
Binding: | Hardcover |
Publisher: | Penguin Books |
Dimensions: | Height: 8.70077 Inches, Length: 5.59054 Inches, Width: 1.1811 Inches |