The last asylum
Subtitle: a memoir of madness in our times
By: Barbara Taylor
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780226273921
Subjects: Mental health; Mentally ill women; London (England); Psychiatric hospitals; Institutional care; Mental illness; Friern Hospital; London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch
Description: In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor's world contracted around her illness. Eventually, she was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institutions, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in London.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-287) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginning; title: History; title: Spain; title: Genius; title: Dead babies; title: God; title: Sex; title: Hunger; title: Filth; title: Crisis; title: Women; title: Bad dreaming; title: Inferno; title: The Asylum; title: First Day; title: In the bin; title: Psychoanalysis and psychiatry; title: Friendship; title: Mad women; title: Day patient; title: The hostel; title: Change; title: Separation; title: Cure; title: Stories; title: Endings.