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Subtitle: a life lost and found : a memoir
By: Judith A. Fisher
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Lost Coast Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Fort Bragg, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781935448297
Subjects: Ex-mental patients; Electroconvulsive therapy for teenagers; Corrupt practices; Psychiatric hospitals; Shock therapy; Self-realization; Patients; Treatment; Self-actualization (Psychology); Biography; Mentally ill children
Description: The poignant memoir of Judith A. Fisher, who, at age seventeen, experienced appalling mistreatment-- including electroshock treatments and an attempted rape-- in a mental hospital, but survived and went on to become a healthy adult and a successful businesswoman, wife, and mother.--