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Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System Paperback - 2009
by Vincent, Norah
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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Self-Made Man" comes this eye-opening, emotionally wrenching, and at times very funny work that exposes the state of mental healthcare in America, from the inside out.
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- Title Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System
- Author Vincent, Norah
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Adult Hc/Tr, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2009
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0143116851I5N00
- ISBN 9780143116851 / 0143116851
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Journalists - United States, Psychiatric hospital patients - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
From the author of The New York Times bestseller Self- Made Man, a captivating expose of depression and mental illness in America
Revelatory, deeply personal, and utterly relevant, Voluntary Madness is a controversial work that unveils the state of mental healthcare in the United States from the inside out. At the conclusion of her celebrated first book--Self-Made Man, in which she soent eighteen months disguised as a man-Norah Vincent found herself emotionally drained and severely depressed.
Determined but uncertain about maintaining her own equilibrium, she boldly committed herself to three different facilities-a big-city hospital, a private clinic in the Midwest, and finally an upscale retreat in the South. Voluntary Madness is the chronicle of Vincent's journey through the world of the mentally ill as she struggles to find her own health and happiness.
Revelatory, deeply personal, and utterly relevant, Voluntary Madness is a controversial work that unveils the state of mental healthcare in the United States from the inside out. At the conclusion of her celebrated first book--Self-Made Man, in which she soent eighteen months disguised as a man-Norah Vincent found herself emotionally drained and severely depressed.
Determined but uncertain about maintaining her own equilibrium, she boldly committed herself to three different facilities-a big-city hospital, a private clinic in the Midwest, and finally an upscale retreat in the South. Voluntary Madness is the chronicle of Vincent's journey through the world of the mentally ill as she struggles to find her own health and happiness.
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- New York Times Book Review, 12/27/2009, Page 20