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.

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Name in long format: The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
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

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