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Author : Mark Davis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445621886
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Asylum written by Mark Davis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices and stories from the patients of Menston Asylum
Author : Jeffrey L. Geller
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Women of the Asylum written by Jeffrey L. Geller and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geller and Harris's accompanying history of both societal and psychiatric standards for women reveals that often even the prevailing conventions reinforced the perception that these women were "mad.".
Author : Susannah Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199579350
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Asylum written by Susannah Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straddling the disciplines of literature and social history, and based on extensive archival research, this book makes a crucial contribution to the feminist project of writing women back into literary history. It brings to light the hitherto unrecognised literary tradition in the prehistory of psychoanalysis: the psychiatric memoir.
Author : Tobin Hansen
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1647120845
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Voices of the Border written by Tobin Hansen and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful personal accounts from migrants crossing the US-Mexico border provide an understanding of their experiences, as well as the consequences of public policy
Author : Doug And Berta Lockhart
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 145257183X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Souls of the Asylum written by Doug And Berta Lockhart and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its 3:00 a.m. on a chilly March morning. You are curled deep within your bed and even deeper within the realm of sleep. Suddenly you are shaken from this peaceful moment by a loud voice that says very plainly, "WAKE UP!" As you lie very still willing your heart to slow to normal, you become aware of voices around you. Who are they? Who are they speaking to? Each voice determined to be heard, each one wanting to give an account. All of their stories are very different except for one common thing: the endings all seem to be the same. You realize that you are in the middle of a conversation, somewhere between reality and sleep, somewhere between the physical and the non-physical. Is this a dream? Is part of this a dream and part of it real? If so, which is which? You begin to listen closer and to wake up. You have heard detailed information about the lives of individuals that lived over a hundred years ago, and all are speaking of their experiences in an Ohio lunatic asylum. Then the conversation moves from past to present, and suddenly they are speaking to you! They begin to involve you in this conversation and ask for your help. Could you do what is asked of you? Could you make sense of this? Discover the people and their stories that have been independently verified as they unfold, and this story now becomes a quest. Find out how an Ohio blacksmith and his family accept this challenge and begin an unforgettable journey between the present and the past.
Author : Mark Davis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445636425
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Asylum written by Mark Davis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of care in the community for the mentally afflicted, the self-contained villages for the apparently insane have now been consigned to the history books. These once bustling Victorian institutions were commonly known in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the county asylum or the pauper lunatic asylum , and were an accepted and essential part of society for nearly two centuries. It is difficult to believe that, in 1914, there were 102 such asylums, accommodating over 100,000 patients, the majority of whom lived their entire lives under care and treatment. In 2014, with the exception of those that have already been demolished, these buildings now lie empty and derelict, or have been converted for contemporary living. Through this photographic book, we journey into the inner sanctum of a world of lost dreams, where hope was more often than not unwillingly traded for an uncomfortable acceptance.
Author : Michael Lyon Glenn
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060903404
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Asylum written by Michael Lyon Glenn and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather Tyler
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780734405364
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Asylum written by Heather Tyler and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of first hand accounts describing what has driven asylum seekers to flee their homelands to come to Australia seeking refuge, and detailing the traumas involved both in flight from their homes and in detention on Australian shores. Also looks at Australia's perception of asylum seekers and media portrayals.
Author : Susannah Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191576808
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Asylum written by Susannah Wilson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Asylum is a fascinating investigation of the lives of four women incarcerated in French psychiatric hospitals in the second half of the nineteenth century. The renowned sculptor (and mistress of Rodin) Camille Claudel, the musician Hersilie Rouy, the feminist activist Marie Esquiron, and the self-proclaimed mystic and eccentric Pauline Lair Lamotte, all left first-hand accounts of their experiences. These rare and unsettling documents provide the foundation for a unique insight into the experience of psychiatric breakdown and treatment from the patient's viewpoint. By linking the question of gender to the process of medical diagnosis made by contemporary clinicians such as Sigmund Freud, this book argues that psychiatric medicine functioned as an integral part of an essentially misogynistic and oppressive society. Wilson suggests that "delusional" utterances can be read as meaningful when read as metaphorical expressions of real suffering, and as strategies to ensure the survival of a self under threat. These narratives therefore constituted an act of resistance on the part of the women who wrote them, and they prefigure the feminist revisionist histories of psychiatry that appeared later in the twentieth century. Straddling the disciplines of literature and social history, and based on extensive archival research, this book makes an important contribution to the feminist project of writing women back into literary history. It brings to light a remarkable but hitherto unrecognised literary tradition in the prehistory of psychoanalysis: the psychiatric memoir.
Author : Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743822189
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Seeking Asylum written by Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices Australia should hear This beautifully illustrated book captures the stories of those who have lived the experience of seeking asylum. In their own voices, contributors share how they came to be in Australia, and explore diverse aspects of their lives: growing up in a refugee camp, studying for a PhD, changing attitudes through soccer, being a Muslim in a small country town, campaigning against racism, surviving detention, holding onto culture, dreaming of being reunited with family. There are stories of love, pain, injustice, achievement and everything in between. Accompanied by beautiful portrait photographs, they show the depth and diversity of people’s experience and trace the impact of Australia’s immigration policies. Seeking Asylum also includes a foreword by Liliana Maria and an essay by Abdul Karim Hekmat on the human, social and political impact of Australia’s treatment of people seeking asylum over the last fifty years. With an afterword by Kon Karapanagiotidis and supporting material demystifying Australia’s current policies from Julian Burnside, Seeking Asylum redefines assumptions about people who have sought asylum and inspires readers to take action to create a more welcoming Australia. 100% of the proceeds from Seeking Asylum: Our Stories will be reinvested by the ASRC to fund projects that build people’s capacity to tell their story in their own way and provide opportunities to amplify their voices. One area of investment will continue to be the ASRC’s Community Advocacy and Power Program (CAPP). The CAPP training program, offered nationally, provides participants with skills in advocacy, community organising / mobilising, public speaking and effective media engagement.
Author : Johan Theorin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448127823
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Asylum written by Johan Theorin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE WINNER OF THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2010 FOR THE DARKEST ROOM 'A compelling and scary psychological thriller' - Sunday Mirror Who amongst us can really say they’re sane? Jan has just started working at the Dell nursery. But this is no normal nursery. It’s linked to a high-security asylum by a dimly-lit underground tunnel, which is used for the children to visit their parents. Who are some of the most dangerous psychopaths in the country. And Jan has complicated reasons for being here. There’s something he’s not telling people about his past. And there’s someone in the asylum who he really wants to see . . .
Author : Kathy Hepinstall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547712073
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Blue Asylum written by Kathy Hepinstall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, a plantation owner's wife is arrested by her husband and declared insane for seeking justice for slaves. She is sent to a mental asylum and finds love with a war-haunted Confederate soldier.
Author : Madeleine Roux
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062220985
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Asylum written by Madeleine Roux and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madeleine Roux's New York Times bestselling Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-illustrated novel that Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut that reveals the enduring impact of buried trauma on a place." For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, the New Hampshire College Prep program is the chance of a lifetime. Except that when Dan arrives, he finds that the usual summer housing has been closed, forcing students to stay in the crumbling Brookline Dorm. The dorm was formerly a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. And not just any asylum—a last resort for the criminally insane. As Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan start exploring Brookline's twisty halls and hidden basement, they uncover disturbing secrets about what really went on at Brookline . . . secrets that link Dan and his friends to the asylum's dark past. Because Brookline was no ordinary asylum, and there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried. Featuring found photographs from real asylums and filled with chilling mystery and page-turning suspense, Asylum is a horror story that treads the line between genius and insanity, perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Don't miss any of the books in the Asylum series, or Madeleine Roux's shivery fantasy series, House of Furies!
Author : Peter Barham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899209217
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Closing The Asylum written by Peter Barham and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closing The Asylum: The Mental Patient in Modern Society. The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the mental health of almost everyone, but it has impacted most severely on disadvantaged groups such as people with severe mental health problems, throwing pre-existing inequalities into sharper and starker relief. Though they had mostly all been closed by the turn of the century, the passing of the old Victorian asylums is still a matter of enduring controversy. In this acclaimed book, first published almost thirty years ago, Peter Barham examines the changing fortunes of mental patients in the era of the asylum and after. He demonstrates powerfully that the closure of mental hospitals cannot meet the real needs of people with severe mental health problems without a profound rethinking of the role, rights and status of the former mental patient in society. In a prologue to this new edition, he highlights the ironies of a post-asylum present afflicted by welfare minimalism, widespread deprivation and impoverishment, and a dramatic increase in the use of coercion and constraint in the delivery of mental health care. Closing the Asylum sets the scene for understanding how the experience of being treated as second class citizens has come about, and the author's forceful warnings of the dangers in the current mental health scene are highly germane to any consideration of what must change in our society after Covid. Veteran mental health survivor and campaigner Peter Campbell also contributes a preface in which he examines the passing of the asylums, and their after-life, in the light of his own experience.
Author : Madeleine Roux
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062424440
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Escape from Asylum written by Madeleine Roux and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this terrifying prequel novel to the New York Times bestselling Asylum series, a teen is wrongfully committed to the Brookline psychiatric hospital and must find a way out—before he becomes the next victim of the evil warden’s experiments. With the page-turning suspense and unsettling found photographs from real asylums that led Publishers Weekly to call Asylum “a strong YA debut,” Escape from Asylum is perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The nightmare is just beginning. Ricky Desmond has been through this all before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn’t belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program—a program that the warden claims will not cure him but perfect him—Ricky realizes that he may not be able to wait for his mom a second longer. With the help of a sympathetic nurse and a fellow patient, Ricky needs to escape now. Set long before Dan, Abby, and Jordan ever walked the hallways of the Brookline asylum—back when it was still a functioning psych ward and not a dorm—Escape from Asylum is a mind-bending and scary installment in the Asylum series that can stand on its own for new readers or provide missing puzzle pieces for series fans. Don't miss Madeleine Roux's all-new gothic horror novel, House of Furies.
Author : Mark Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445621739
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Asylum written by Mark Davis and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices and stories from the patients of Menston Asylum
Author : Simon Doonan
Publisher : Blue Rider Press
ISBN 13 : 0399173714
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)
Download or read book The Asylum written by Simon Doonan and published by Blue Rider Press. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Humorous essays about the fashion industry"--
