SHEEHAN, Susan Additional Author mixed material bibliography New York Vintage Books USA 2014 en English

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xv, 358 p.; 20 cm. This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize winning investigation of schizophrenia—now reissued with a new postscript—follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness.rnrn“Sylvia Frumkin” was born in 1948 and began showing signs of schizophrenia in her teens. She spent the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. In 1978, reporter Susan Sheehan took an interest in her and, for more than two years, became immersed in her life: talking with her, listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with doctors—even, for a period, sleeping in the bed next to her in a psychiatric center. With Sheehan, we become witness to Sylvia’s plight: her psychotic episodes, the medical struggle to control her symptoms, and the overburdened hospitals that, more often than not, she was obliged to call home. The resulting book, first published in 1982, was hailed as an extraordinary achievement: harrowing, humanizing, moving, and bitingly funny. Now, some two decades later, Is There No Place on Earth for Me? continues to set the standard for accounts of mental illness. Schizophrenics - Biography Creedmoor Psychiatric Center FRUMKIN, Sylvia Schizophrenics 616.89820924 9780804169189 RAFFLES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL To Learn , To Lead , To Love 616.89820924 SHE i s1506002 9780804169189.jpg.jpg 9539 2017-02-01 08:48:39 2017-02-01 08:48:39 machine generated