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Insane

Author : Alisa Roth
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781541646476
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Insane written by Alisa Roth and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to show how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. Through intimate stories of people in the system and those trying to fix it, Roth reveals the hidden forces behind this crisis and suggests how a fairer and more humane approach might look. Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable.

Who's Running the Asylum?

Author : Wilt Chamberlain
Publisher : International Promotions/Promotion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781579010058
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Who's Running the Asylum? written by Wilt Chamberlain and published by International Promotions/Promotion Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gracefully Insane

Author : Alex Beam
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786750367
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Gracefully Insane written by Alex Beam and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles, as well as (more secretly) other notables from among the rich and famous. In its "golden age," McLean provided as genteel an environment for the treatment of mental illness as one could imagine. But the golden age is over, and a downsized, downscale McLean-despite its affiliation with Harvard University-is struggling to stay afloat. Gracefully Insane, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today. It is filled with stories about patients and doctors: the Ralph Waldo Emerson protégé whose brilliance disappeared along with his madness; Anne Sexton's poetry seminar, and many more. The story of McLean is also the story of the hopes and failures of psychology and psychotherapy; of the evolution of attitudes about mental illness, of approaches to treatment, and of the economic pressures that are making McLean-and other institutions like it-relics of a bygone age. This is a compelling and often oddly poignant reading for fans of books like Plath's The Bell Jar and Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted (both inspired by their author's stays at McLean) and for anyone interested in the history of medicine or psychotherapy, or the social history of New England.

Inside the Insane

Author : Erica Loberg
Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
ISBN 13 : 1849912327
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Inside the Insane written by Erica Loberg and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DescriptionInside the Insane is a first hand account of life inside a psychiatric crisis ward in Los Angeles, California. From patients suffering from chronic paranoid schizophrenia to bipolar disorder disease, to major depressive disorder, Inside the Insane takes the reader inside the walls of the mentally insane and manifests the realities of the human condition. Erica provides detailed accounts of patients screaming in restraints, to being locked in seclusion, to suffering from over medication, in radical raw detail. She also takes a look at the mental health system in Los Angeles County and exposes the concealed world of how society treats the mentally ill. From locked institutions, to board and cares, to living on the streets in Skid Row, the horrific conditions surrounding the life of a person suffering from a mental illness is explicitly exposed. Told through the eyes of a person dealing with her own mental illness, Inside the Insane also takes the reader on a personal journey of Erica's manic self-destruction, deep depression, and the process of treatment, medication and recovery. Her authentic journal entries beginning in 1999 expose her mental illness before knowledge of its existence. Her accounts of flying through the streets of New York, to sitting solemn on a fire escape in lonely depression, call attention to her life before treatment. As a result, an in-depth analysis of her own writings, coupled with the writings of previous renowned writers who also suffered from manic depression, underscores the potential to discover a person suffering from a mental illness prior to a first mental break. Such a discovery offers the chance to anticipate a mental illness and can help an individual seek treatment before it results in a suicide attempt, or a hospitalization. In 2005, Erica was diagnosed with chronic hypomania, Bipolar II, which was a turning point in her life as she began the process of psychiatric treatment. True journal accounts of her ongoing attempt to find the right medication to balance her highs and lows reveal the struggles she endures and how she works to handle that condition on an ongoing basis. She also discloses how her condition affects family and friends, and how those relationships are defined and redefined before and after the discovery of her disease. This groundbreaking expose opens the door to a world that has traditionally been locked up and ignored, and exposes it with shocking detail as the hidden truths inside the minds of the insane are intensely uncovered. About the AuthorErica Loberg was born in 1977 and raised in Los Angeles, California. She received her Bachelor's in English from Columbia University. Erica was diagnosed with chronic hypomania, Bipolar II, in 2005 and continues down the road of psychiatric treatment. Currently, she lives in downtown LA and works with the mentally ill, who inspired her to write this book. This is Erica's first book.

Asylum

Author : Christopher Payne
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262013495
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Asylum written by Christopher Payne and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a peaceful environment, a regimen of fresh air, and places for work, exercise, and cultural activities would heal mental illness. But in the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these beautiful, massive buildings—and the patients who lived in them—neglected and abandoned. Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crumbling interiors—chairs stacked against walls with peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of suitcases, never packed for the trip home. Accompanying Payne's striking and powerful photographs is an essay by Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne's photographs and to the lives once lived in these places, “where one could be both mad and safe.”

The Architecture of Madness

Author : Carla Yanni
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816649396
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Madness written by Carla Yanni and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Insane Society: A Sociology of Mental Health

Author : Peter Morrall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351271148
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Insane Society: A Sociology of Mental Health written by Peter Morrall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critiques the connection between Western society and madness, scrutinizing if and how societal insanity affects the cause, construction, and consequence of madness. Looking beyond the affected individual to their social, political, economic, ecological, and cultural context, this book examines whether society itself, and its institutions, divisions, practices, and values, is mad. That society’s insanity is relevant to the sanity and insanity of its citizens has been argued by Fromm in The Sane Society, but also by a host of sociologists, social thinkers, epidemiologists and biologists. This book builds on classic texts such as Foucault’s History of Madness, Scull’s Marxist-oriented works and more recent publications which have arisen from a range of socio-political and patient-orientated movements. Chapters in this book draw on biology, psychology, sociological and anthropological thinking that argues that where madness is concerned, society matters. Providing an extended case study of how the sociological imagination should operate in a contemporary setting, this book draws on genetics, neuroscience, cognitive science, radical psychology, and evolutionary psychology/psychiatry. It is an important read for students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, social policy, criminology, health, and mental health.

An Insight Into an Insane Asylum

Author : Joseph Camp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book An Insight Into an Insane Asylum written by Joseph Camp and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiences in the Insane Hospital of Alabama.

The Invention of Madness

Author : Emily Baum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022655824X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Madness written by Emily Baum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces a genealogy of insanity from the turn of the century to the onset of war with Japan in 1937, revealing the complex and convoluted ways in which “madness” was transformed in the Chinese imagination into “mental illness.” Focusing on typically marginalized historical actors, including municipal functionaries and the urban poor, The Invention of Madness shifts our attention from the elite desire for modern medical care to the ways in which psychiatric discourses were implemented and redeployed in the midst of everyday life. New meanings and practices of madness, Baum argues, were not just imposed on the Beijing public but continuously invented by a range of people in ways that reflected their own needs and interests. Exhaustively researched and theoretically informed, The Invention of Madness is an innovative contribution to medical history, urban studies, and the social history of twentieth-century China.

Insane

Author : Rainald Goetz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910695319
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Insane written by Rainald Goetz and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insane follows the lives of inmates and workers, including the central figure of Doctor Raspe, in an asylum.

Madness in Civilization

Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691166153
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Madness in Civilization written by Andrew Scull and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.

Staying Sane in an Insane World

Author : Kiaundra Jackson
Publisher : KW Couples Therapy
ISBN 13 : 9780999208137
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Staying Sane in an Insane World written by Kiaundra Jackson and published by KW Couples Therapy. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have faced struggles, setbacks, shortcomings, failures, and losses in life. The way you deal with those issues becomes the ultimate test of your mental stability. Because life can be chaotic at times, it is important to pay attention to your mental health and adopt regular mental health practices that help you stay sane. In this informative and practical guide, you will gain tips, skills, and knowledge that you can begin implementing today to achieve optimal mental health. The goal of this book is simple: to help you navigate through life's difficulties more effectively and achieve an optimal state of mental health.

Crazy

Author : Pete Earley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425213896
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Crazy written by Pete Earley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A magnificent gift to those of us who love someone who has a mental illness…Earley has used his considerable skills to meticulously research why the mental health system is so profoundly broken.”—Bebe Moore Campbell, author of 72 Hour Hold Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son—in the throes of a manic episode—broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. This is the Earley family's compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the “revolving doors” between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an experience little better than the horrors of a century ago. Earley takes us directly into that experience—and into that of a father and award-winning journalist trying to fight for a better way.

Circle of Madness

Author : Robert Perrucci
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Circle of Madness written by Robert Perrucci and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1974 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ten Days in a Mad-House (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

Author : Nellie Bly
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 155480860X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Ten Days in a Mad-House (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) written by Nellie Bly and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Insanity

Author : Thomas Szasz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815604600
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Insanity written by Thomas Szasz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is insanity a myth? Does it exist merely to keep psychiatrists in business? In Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences, Dr. Szasz challenges the way both science and society define insanity; in the process, he helps us better understand this often misunderstood condition. Dr. Szasz presents a carefully crafted account of the insanity concept and shows how it relates to and differs from three closely allied ideas—bodily illness, social deviance, and the sick role.

La Castañeda Insane Asylum

Author : Cristina Rivera Garza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806167237
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book La Castañeda Insane Asylum written by Cristina Rivera Garza and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Castañeda Insane Asylum is the first inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum--a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. It links life within the asylum's walls to the radical transformations brought about as Mexico entered the Revolution's armed phase and then endured under succeeding modernizing regimes. Author Cristina Rivera Garza brings the history of La Castañeda asylum to life as inmates, doctors, relatives, and others engage in dialogues on insanity. They discuss faith, sex, poverty, loss, resentment, envy, love, and politics. Doctors translated what they heard into the emerging language of psychiatry, while inmates conveyed their personal experiences and private histories through expressions of mental suffering. The language of pain--physical and spiritual, mild to excruciating--allowed patients to detail the sources and consequences of their misfortune. Available now for the first time in English, this edition contains updated sources and features a note by the translator, Laura Kanost.