9 Highland Road
Subtitle: Sane Living for the Mentally Ill
By: Michael Winerip
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: May 30, 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780679761600
Subjects: Psychology; New York (State); Mental Illness; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Case studies; Group homes for the mentally ill
Other titles: Nine Highland Road
First sentence: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1988, Julie Callahan made the long trip by train from the mental hospital where she'd been living the last sixteen months to Glen Cove, Long Island.
Description: "Before Julie Callahan came to the house at 9 Highland Road in Glen Cove, New York, she had spent a good part of her young life in mental hospitals, her mental and emotional coherence nearly destroyed by a childhood of sexual abuse. Fred Grasso, a schizophrenic, had lived in a filthy single-room occupancy hotel. At 9 Highland Road they and their housemates were given a decent alternative to lives in institutions or in the streets. It was a place in which some even found the chance to get better. This perfectly observed and passionately imagined book takes inside one of the supervised group homes that, in an age of shrinking state budgets and psychotropic drugs, have emerged as the backbone of America's mental health system. As it follows the progress and setbacks of residents, their families, and counselors and notes the embittered resistance their presence initially aroused in the neighborhood, 9 Highland Road succeeds in opening the locked world of mental illness. It does so with an empathy and insight that will change forever the way we understand and act in relation to that world" -- Back cover.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1994.

Subtitle on cover: Sane living for the mentally ill.