The Last Asylum

The Last Asylum
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 316
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226273921
ISBN-13 : 022627392X
Rating : 4/5 (92X Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Last Asylum by : Barbara Taylor

Download or read book The Last Asylum written by Barbara Taylor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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


The Last Asylum Related Books

The Last Asylum
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Barbara Taylor
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

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
The Afterlives of the Psychiatric Asylum
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Professor Robin Kearns
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

GET EBOOK

Focussing on the 'recycling' of both the idea of the psychiatric asylum and its sites, buildings and landscapes, this book makes theoretical connections to curr
Asylums
Language: en
Pages: 426
Authors: Erving Goffman
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-08 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society fo
Asylum
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Enoch Callaway
Categories: History, 20th Century
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

The Asylum Confession
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Jack Steen
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-15 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

They arrive alive. They leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions.My name is Jack Steen. That name shouldn't mean anything to you. Unless you're abou