Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass: A Psychologist´s Memoir
Annita Perez Sawyer
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Paperback. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JMP; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
"A fiercely honest and beautifully written book." --Paul Austin, author, Beautiful Eyes and Something for the Pain A cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and resilience Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transferred, labeled as "unimproved." The damage done has haunted her life. Discharged in 1966, after finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer kept her past secret and moved on to graduate from Yale University, ... Read more
"A fiercely honest and beautifully written book." --Paul Austin, author, Beautiful Eyes and Something for the Pain A cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and resilience Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transferred, labeled as "unimproved." The damage done has haunted her life. Discharged in 1966, after finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer kept her past secret and moved on to graduate from Yale University, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Santa Fe Writer´s Project
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
396g
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Santa Fe, United States
ISBN
9781939650269
SKU
V9781939650269
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Reviews for Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass: A Psychologist´s Memoir
"This utterly gripping, sharply written memoir pulls no punches. With cauterizing honesty and a blessed sense of perspective, Annita Perez Sawyer takes you into and through her dark experience to the shores of wisdom." Philip Lopate, author, Being With Children "How to mend a psyche shattered by personal trauma? Annita Sawyer seeks answers to that question, first for her ... Read more