How thin the veil
Subtitle: a memoir of 45 days in the Traverse City State Hospital
By: by Jack Kerkhoff ; with an introduction by Ray Minervini
Publisher: Mission Point Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Traverse City, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781943995196
Subjects: Psychotherapy patients; Psychiatric hospital care; Psychiatry; Case studies; Psychiatric hospitals; Patients en psychothérapie; Hôpitaux psychiatriques; Soins; Traverse City State Hospital (Mich.)
Description: ""So this is my return to Traverse City, Michigan. Not to the sprawling white house on Washington Street, which all of us loved, but to Traverse City State Hospital, in other days bluntly called an insane asylum." Picture a slightly decrepit, snow-covered state hospital. A depressed writer checks himself into the asylum and is placed in the ward for alcoholics and the mildly insane. Under the care of a wise and patient, chain-smoking doctor, our hero examines his suicidal motivations, while at the same time keeping a writer's eye on the inmates and their almost universal malady of "woman trouble." As the snow comes down and Christmas nears, "woman trouble" takes on new meaning when the author falls in love with beautiful, child-like Suzy from Ward Eleven. This memoir, originally published in 1952, takes a hard-boiled look at mental health treatment before the collapse of the state-sponsored system. Bawdy, inappropriate, deeply romantic and rich in captivating characters, How Thin the Veil takes the love story to where it's never been before."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "Originally published by Greenberg Publishing Company in 1952"--Title page verso.