A mind that found itself an autobiography
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa.
University of Pittsburgh Press
©1981
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| Schriftenreihe: | Contemporary community health series
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- At once a classic account of the ravages of mental illness and a major American autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself tells the story of a young man who is gradually enveloped by a psychosis. His well-meaning family commits him to a series of mental hospitals, but he is brutalized by the treatment, and his moments of fleeting sanity become fewer and fewer. His ultimate recovery is a triumph of the human spirit. The publication of A Mind That Found Itself did for the American mental health movement what Thomas Paineís Common Sense did for the American Revolution. Moreover, it grips the ima