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Taylor, Barbara, 1950 Apr. 11-
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Taylor, Barbara, 1950 Apr. 11- -- Mental health.
Friern Hospital -- Biography.
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Taylor, Barbara, 1950 Apr. 11-
Taylor, Barbara, 1950 Apr. 11- -- Mental health.
Friern Hospital -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Mentally ill women -- Institutional care -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Mentally ill -- Institutional care -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Anxiety disorders -- Patients -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain.
Psychoanalysis -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
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The last asylum : a memoir of madness in our times / Barbara Taylor.
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Taylor, Barbara, 1950 Apr. 11-
Hamish Hamilton, 2014.
Call #:
362
.2109
T238L
Subjects
Taylor, Barbara, 1950 Apr. 11- -- Mental health.
Friern Hospital -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Mentally ill women -- Institutional care -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Mentally ill -- Institutional care -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Anxiety disorders -- Patients -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain.
Psychoanalysis -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
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9780143191599 (pbk.)
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xx, 295 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"In July 1988, Canadian-born historian Barbara Taylor was admitted to Friern Hospital, a once-notorious asylum for the insane. Her journey there began when, overwhelmed by anxiety as she completed her doctoral studies in London, England, she found relief by dosing herself with alcohol and tranquillizers. She then embarked on what would turn out to be a decades-long psychoanalysis. The analysis dredged up acutely painful memories of an unhappy and confusing childhood back in Saskatoon. As Taylor struggled to cope with these, she would twice be re-admitted to Friern. She took refuge in day-care institutions and a psychiatric hostel, all the while continuing her therapy, which eventually put her on the road to recovery. The narrative of the author's madness years, set inside the wider story of our treatment of psychiatric illness: from the great age of asylums to the current era of community care, 'Big Pharma', and quick fixes. Her own experience as well as that of millions of others -- both in Europe and in North America -- who have suffered, are suffering, and will suffer from mental illness. Barbara Taylor is a historian whose previous books include a study of nineteenth-century socialist feminism, Eve and the New Jerusalem; a biography of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft; and On Kindness, a defence of fellow feeling co-written with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. She teaches history and English at Queen Mary University of London."--Provided by publisher.
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