The Last Asylum : A Memoir Of Madness In Our Time [Barbara Taylor]

Taylor, Barbara

Toronto, Ontario, 2014

By Hamish Hamilton
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Card covers with French flaps, 295 pages, 5.5x8.5 in. [14x21.5 cm.].
Condition

Covers with modest surface wear.
Notes


Canadian historian Barbara Taylor combines memoir with a history of psychiatric care in Britain, tracing her experiences of mental illness from the 1980s through two decades of psychoanalysis. Raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Taylor the daughter of prominent lawyers and left-wing activists. She recounts periods at Friern Hospital in London, a psychiatric hostel, and day-care institutions. The book also considers the history of psychoanalysis and changing approaches to mental illness.
ISBN

9780143191599
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