Taylor, Barbara | LAST ASYLUM - A MEMOIR OF MADNESS IN OUR TIMES

En personlig skildring av mental sjukdom och den brittiska psykiatriska vården, med fokus på erfarenheter från ett tidigare asyl.

• Last asylum - a memoir of madness in our times utforskar psykisk ohälsa.

• En personlig berättelse om livet i ett mentalsjukhus.

• Utgiven som förlagsband, 2014.

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Bindning: Förlagsband

Bokförlag: Penguin Books Ltd.
ISBN: 9780241145098

Omfång: 289
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2014-02-06

Förlagets information

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. The Last Asylum begins with Barbara Taylor's visit to the innocuously named Princess Park Manor in Friern Barnet, North London - a picture of luxury and repose. But this is the former site of one of England's most infamous lunatic asylums, the Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Aslyum at Colney Hatch. At its peak this asylum housed nearly 3,000 patients - among them, in the 1980s, Barbara Taylor herself. The Last Asylum is Taylor's powerful account of her battle with mental illness, set inside the wider story of the end of the UK asylum system. Barbara Taylor's previous books include an award-winning study of nineteenth-century socialist feminism, Eve and the New Jerusalem; an intellectual biography of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft; and On Kindness, a defence of fellow feeling co-written with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. She is a longstanding editor of the leading history journal, History Workshop Journal, and a director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. She teaches history and English at Queen Mary University of London.

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