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Inside The Mental: Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD (The Regina Collection)
Kay Kay
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Hardcover. "Inside "The Mental" "offers an episodic journey into the stigma, horror, and redemption that one woman found at Weyburn Mental Hospital, both as a patient and later, a psychiatric nurse. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; BM; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 107. .
"A revelatory account of the importance that psychiatric treatment and research from the 1950s has for mental health today." Jean Freeman, author of Fists upon a Star Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met. Part memoir, part history, and beautifully written, Inside The Mental offers an episodic journey into the stigma, horror, and redemption that she found within the institution's walls. Now in her nineties, Parley looks back at the emerging use of group therapy, the ... Read more
"A revelatory account of the importance that psychiatric treatment and research from the 1950s has for mental health today." Jean Freeman, author of Fists upon a Star Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met. Part memoir, part history, and beautifully written, Inside The Mental offers an episodic journey into the stigma, horror, and redemption that she found within the institution's walls. Now in her nineties, Parley looks back at the emerging use of group therapy, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
158
Place of Publication
Regina, Canada
ISBN
9780889774117
SKU
V9780889774117
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