Title: The last asylum
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.
Subjects: Mental health, Mentally ill women, London (England), Psychiatric hospitals, Institutional care, Mental illness, Friern Hospital, London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, Mentally ill, care, Women, Mentally ill, Mental Disorders, Autobiography, Commitment of Mentally Ill, History, Institutionalization, Mentally ill, great britain, Mentally Ill Persons, London (England) County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch
Places: England, Great Britain, London
People: Barbara Taylor (1950 April 11-)