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Author : Mark Davis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445621886
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Voices from the Asylum written by Mark Davis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices and stories from the patients of Menston Asylum
Author : Jeffrey L. Geller
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women of the Asylum written by Jeffrey L. Geller and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geller and Harris's accompanying history of both societal and psychiatric standards for women reveals that often even the prevailing conventions reinforced the perception that these women were "mad.".
Author : Susannah Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199579350
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book Voices from the Asylum written by Susannah Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straddling the disciplines of literature and social history, and based on extensive archival research, this book makes a crucial contribution to the feminist project of writing women back into literary history. It brings to light the hitherto unrecognised literary tradition in the prehistory of psychoanalysis: the psychiatric memoir.
Author : Tobin Hansen
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1647120845
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Voices of the Border written by Tobin Hansen and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful personal accounts from migrants crossing the US-Mexico border provide an understanding of their experiences, as well as the consequences of public policy
Author : Doug And Berta Lockhart
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 145257183X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Souls of the Asylum written by Doug And Berta Lockhart and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its 3:00 a.m. on a chilly March morning. You are curled deep within your bed and even deeper within the realm of sleep. Suddenly you are shaken from this peaceful moment by a loud voice that says very plainly, "WAKE UP!" As you lie very still willing your heart to slow to normal, you become aware of voices around you. Who are they? Who are they speaking to? Each voice determined to be heard, each one wanting to give an account. All of their stories are very different except for one common thing: the endings all seem to be the same. You realize that you are in the middle of a conversation, somewhere between reality and sleep, somewhere between the physical and the non-physical. Is this a dream? Is part of this a dream and part of it real? If so, which is which? You begin to listen closer and to wake up. You have heard detailed information about the lives of individuals that lived over a hundred years ago, and all are speaking of their experiences in an Ohio lunatic asylum. Then the conversation moves from past to present, and suddenly they are speaking to you! They begin to involve you in this conversation and ask for your help. Could you do what is asked of you? Could you make sense of this? Discover the people and their stories that have been independently verified as they unfold, and this story now becomes a quest. Find out how an Ohio blacksmith and his family accept this challenge and begin an unforgettable journey between the present and the past.
Author : Mark Davis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445636425
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Asylum written by Mark Davis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of care in the community for the mentally afflicted, the self-contained villages for the apparently insane have now been consigned to the history books. These once bustling Victorian institutions were commonly known in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the county asylum or the pauper lunatic asylum , and were an accepted and essential part of society for nearly two centuries. It is difficult to believe that, in 1914, there were 102 such asylums, accommodating over 100,000 patients, the majority of whom lived their entire lives under care and treatment. In 2014, with the exception of those that have already been demolished, these buildings now lie empty and derelict, or have been converted for contemporary living. Through this photographic book, we journey into the inner sanctum of a world of lost dreams, where hope was more often than not unwillingly traded for an uncomfortable acceptance.
Author : Michael Lyon Glenn
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060903404
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Voices from the Asylum written by Michael Lyon Glenn and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather Tyler
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780734405364
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Asylum written by Heather Tyler and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of first hand accounts describing what has driven asylum seekers to flee their homelands to come to Australia seeking refuge, and detailing the traumas involved both in flight from their homes and in detention on Australian shores. Also looks at Australia's perception of asylum seekers and media portrayals.
Author : James M. Freeman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295801611
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Download or read book Voices from the Camps written by James M. Freeman and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wave after wave of political and economic refugees poured out of Vietnam beginning in the late 1970s, overwhelming the resources available to receive them. Squalid conditions prevailed in detention centers and camps in Hong Kong and throughout Southeast Asia, where many refugees spent years languishing in poverty, neglect, and abuse while supposedly being protected by an international consortium of caregivers. Voices from the Camps tells the story of the most vulnerable of these refugees: children alone, either orphaned or separated from their families. Combining anthropology and social work with advocacy for unaccompanied children everywhere, James M. Freeman and Nguyen Dinh Huu present the voices and experiences of Vietnamese refugee children neglected and abused by the system intended to help them. Authorities in countries of first asylum, faced with thousands upon thousands of increasingly frightened, despairing, and angry people, needed to determine on a case-by-case basis whether they should be sent back to Vietnam or be certified as legitimate refugees and allowed to proceed to countries of resettlement. The international community, led by UNHCR, devised a well-intentioned screening system. Unfortunately, as Freeman and Nguyen demonstrate, it failed unaccompanied children. The hardships these children endured are disturbing, but more disturbing is the story of how the governments and agencies that set out to care for them eventually became the children�s tormenters. When Vietnam, after years of refusing to readmit illegal emigrants, reversed its policy, the international community began doing everything it could to force them back to Vietnam. Cutting rations, closing schools, separating children from older relations and other caregivers, relocating them in order to destroy any sense of stability--the authorities employed coercion and effective abuse with distressing ease, all in the name of the �best interests� of the children. While some children eventually managed to construct a decent life in Vietnam or elsewhere, including the United States, all have been scarred by their refugee experience and most are still struggling with the legacy. Freeman and Nguyen�s presentation and analysis of this sobering chapter in recent history is a cautionary tale and a call to action.
Author : Susannah Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191576808
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Voices from the Asylum written by Susannah Wilson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Asylum is a fascinating investigation of the lives of four women incarcerated in French psychiatric hospitals in the second half of the nineteenth century. The renowned sculptor (and mistress of Rodin) Camille Claudel, the musician Hersilie Rouy, the feminist activist Marie Esquiron, and the self-proclaimed mystic and eccentric Pauline Lair Lamotte, all left first-hand accounts of their experiences. These rare and unsettling documents provide the foundation for a unique insight into the experience of psychiatric breakdown and treatment from the patient's viewpoint. By linking the question of gender to the process of medical diagnosis made by contemporary clinicians such as Sigmund Freud, this book argues that psychiatric medicine functioned as an integral part of an essentially misogynistic and oppressive society. Wilson suggests that "delusional" utterances can be read as meaningful when read as metaphorical expressions of real suffering, and as strategies to ensure the survival of a self under threat. These narratives therefore constituted an act of resistance on the part of the women who wrote them, and they prefigure the feminist revisionist histories of psychiatry that appeared later in the twentieth century. Straddling the disciplines of literature and social history, and based on extensive archival research, this book makes an important contribution to the feminist project of writing women back into literary history. It brings to light a remarkable but hitherto unrecognised literary tradition in the prehistory of psychoanalysis: the psychiatric memoir.
