Quite mad
Subtitle: an American pharma memoir
By: Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Series: Machete; Machete
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780814254868
Subjects: Mental illness; Mental health; History; Treatment; Women
Description: "Blends memoir with literary journalism to examine America's history of mental illness treatments to challenge contemporary narratives about mental health, questioning what it means to be a woman with highly stigmatized disorders and asking why mental illness continues to escalate in the United States despite so many 'cures'"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295).
Table of contents: title: The influence of intervention; title: The sick role; title: Nature or nurture; title: An American diagnosis; title: Patient history; title: My voice for their drugs; title: A female malady; title: Learned behavior; title: The world we've made for women; title: Editing; title: Molecular myths; title: Bitter pills; title: Rebuffed; title: Delicates; title: Unbearable weight; title: Rapture in May; title: Occam's razor; title: Compulsion; title: Moral treatment; title: Taking up space; title: Turning around; title: Is satisfied enough?