Download or read book Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin written by Courtney A. Walsh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a botched suicide attempt, Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin takes the reader on a journey that's at once inspiring, haunting, heartfelt, and hilarious. From life at a mental hospital and the colorful cast of fellow 'bin-mates' to the horrors of insomniac night terrors and modern day electroshock therapy, Lipstick and Thongs uses dark humor and Walsh's unstoppable personality to explore the absurdities of the mental illness realm.
Download or read book The Loony Bin Trip written by Kate Millett and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal story of Kate Millett's struggle to regain control of her life after falling under an ascription of manic depression.
Download or read book Letters from the Looney Bin written by Thatcher C. Nalley and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1970s the Emerson Rose Asylum became completely abandoned - all the patients, doctors, staff vanished and were never seen again. The events circling this mass exodus have been one of the most baffling disappearances in history...until now. For hidden deep inside a tattered asylum mattress a stack of bundled letters were found. These letters, all addressed to the pseudonym Dr. Quill, and all written by the patients as they document the final days of the Emerson Rose Asylum.
Download or read book Voluntary Madness written by Norah Vincent and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to Self-Made Man traces the author's commitment to a mental institution, where she embraced health and made observations about the effect of institutionalization and medication on the depressed and insane. 100,000 first printing.
Download or read book Whirlaway written by Poe Ballantine and published by Hawthorne Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Plum, who insists he’s been unjustifiably committed to a California psychiatric hospital, manages to finally escape after fourteen years of incarceration to start his life anew. On the run, he holes up in a sheltered barrio on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean owned by his wealthy but unsympathetic father. Here he meets Sweets, the telepathic dog, laments the loss of Sofia, his madhouse lover, and plays the horses at the Del Mar Racetrack. Eventually he meets up with an old friend, Shelly Hubbard, a fellow horseplayer, record collector/dealer, and hardcore loner, who tells him about his brother, Donny, dead at the age of eighteen from a tragic dive off a thirty-foot La Jolla sea cliff known as the Clam. Eddie discovers a family secret and wants to help, but by then he’s already embroiled in the psychotic incident with the Tijuana prostitutes, the madhouse lover, and the police, who are hot on his tail. Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride has nothing on Whirlaway, a hilarious novel of escaped mental patients, horseplayers, and record collectors.
Download or read book Who is Rich written by Matthew Klam and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The long-awaited first novel from the acclaimed author of Sam the Cat is a provocative and hilarious satire of love, sex, money, and politics in our new gilded age--for readers of The Nix and This Is Where I Leave You"--
Download or read book Get Well Soon written by Julie Halpern and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Bloom is depressed -- so depressed that her parents have committed her to a mental hospital with a bunch of other messed-up teens. Here she meets a roommate with a secret (and a plastic baby), a doctor who focuses way too much on her weight, and a cute, shy boy who just might like her. But wait! Being trapped in a loony bin isn't supposed to be about making friends, losing weight, and having a crush, is it? Get Well Soon, Julie Halpern's fiction debut, finds humor in the unlikeliest of places, and presents a character whose voice -- and heart -- will resonate with all of us who have ever felt just a little bit crazy.
Download or read book All He Knew written by Helen Frost and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2021 Scott O'Dell Award Winner A Society of Midland Authors Winner in Children's Fiction A Bank Street Best Book of the Year 2021 A novel in verse about a young deaf boy during World War II, the sister who loves him, and the conscientious objector who helps him. Inspired by true events. Henry has been deaf from an early age—he is intelligent and aware of langauge, but by age six, he has decided it's not safe to speak to strangers. When the time comes for him to start school, he is labeled "unteachable." Because his family has very little money, his parents and older sister, Molly, feel powerless to help him. Henry is sent to Riverview, a bleak institution where he is misunderstood, underestimated, and harshly treated. Victor, a conscientious objector to World War II, is part of a Civilian Public Service program offered as an alternative to the draft. In 1942, he arrives at Riverview to serve as an attendant and quickly sees that Henry is far from unteachable—he is brave, clever, and sometimes mischievous. In Victor's care, Henry begins to see how things can change for the better. Heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful, Helen Frost's All He Knew is inspired by true events and provides sharp insight into a little-known element of history.
Download or read book That s Mental written by Amanda Rosenberg and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Incredible!"—Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life and Meaty Raw, witty, and unapologetic, That’s Mental is a collection of laugh-out-loud funny, confessional essays about the inappropriate, devastating, and strangely amusing side to being mentally ill. In her book, British comedy writer Amanda Rosenberg breaks down myths and misconceptions about what it means to live, laugh, love with bipolar II in a darkly funny, but familiar way. That’s Mental dives head-first into the overlooked and offbeat issues of mental illness, it shines a harsh, fitting room light on thoughts and ideas that are often avoided, because they’re uncomfortable or just downright embarrassing. These pages move through the everyday realities of mental illness, covering everything from, how reaching out for help is a fucking nightmare, to dealing with people who suggest “cures” for your depression, to making up excuses to miss work just so you can take a mental health day. That’s Mental is an uproarious and brutally honest collection of confessions from someone who’s been there, done that, and still has no idea what she’s doing.
Download or read book Intimate Relations written by Liam Hudson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate Relations advances a radically new view of love and marriage. Liam Hudson and Bernadine Jacot show that early psychological development leaves adults of both sexes ill-equipped to understand one another's intimate needs and fears. But they go on to demonstrate that these patterns of difference are also the substance of heterosexual fascination, responsible for the rewards as well as the pitfalls familiar to each of us. In their earlier book, The Way Men Think, the authors described those aspects of the male imagination which make men strange in the eyes of women. The authors now focus on patterns of female emotional development, and conclude that these too are the source of an emotional burden or disability: an 'incubus' that women carry through life, and that renders their intimacies with men a source not only of gratification but of depression. The authors describe in vivid detail the lives of remarkable women - Vera Brittain, Kate Millett, Margaret Thatcher and Margaret Mead - establishing the subtle nature of sex differences. They also use material from the novels of Julian Barnes, Doris Lessing and Marguerite Duras, and from the career of the painter Walter Sickert, to reveal the processes whereby turbulent emotion is transformed into manageable form. Hudson and Jacot reject the discussion of passionate relationships in terms of 'sexuality'. Erotically charged intimacy, they argue, is an exercise of the individual's imaginative powers. Consequently, it is the parallel between intimacy and art which is the royal road to a better understanding of desire and of the ways in which it is expressed.
Download or read book The Rushing written by Don Alberts and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The tough sub-culture of drugs and the �60�s and the jazz experience." "And now it flows, the trickle of conscious participation as rivers flow to the cold pristine mix of the sea, and as the earth bleeds openly for brother and son, so goes the madness, so goes the war un-won, so goes the man undone, and so goes the Rushing." "The love of life propelled by music and the mounting struggle with self control and addiction, the inner conflict of the heart and the tempting pangs of oblivion." Into the catacombs, the dark desperation of the heroin addict, Louis Parker, assailed by a power beyond his control never lost site of his dream, believing that no matter what he would somehow find his way, find the path that would lead him back to the music and playing jazz. The inspiring story of the tough underground of drugs and jazz music in the 60�s and the "Crooked Road to the Big Time." Through the depths of heroin addiction and jazz music one man made it back and survived. Find out how he did it.
Download or read book Mother Millett written by Kate Millett and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Millett's tremulous and hauntingly beautiful memoir begins with a telephone call from Minnesota where her mother is dying. Her return home to a severe, intelligent, and controlling matriarch is the catalyst for a meditation on her upbringing in middle America and her subsequent outcast status as a political activist, artist, and lesbian. Mother Millett is an intensely personal journey through the author's interior life, a subject she has visited over the years in such classic texts as Sita and The Loony Bin Trip. In these pages are reflections on a life of political engagement, beginning with the sexual politics of the feminist movement, proceeding to the struggle for gay liberation, and culminating in her campaign for housing rights on the Lower East Side of New York where she and her neighbors currently face eviction. Throughout, Millett confronts her fears of losing her mother, the anchor to a world she has long ago rejected but which continues to define her. Echoing Philip Roth's Patrimony, Millett writes with great poignancy about caring for the person who brought her into the world, a role reversal that brings with it both devastation and grace.
Download or read book Nightmare Factories written by Troy Rondinone and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from fictional and real accounts, movies, personal interviews, and tours of mental hospitals both active and defunct, Rondinone uncovers a story at once familiar and bizarre, where reality meets fantasy in the foggy landscape of celluloid and pulp.
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
Download or read book Social Life written by Nancy Oliver and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 1990 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Timber written by Lew Freedman and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each summer, men and women travel from all over the globe to the Lumberjack World Championships in Hayward, Wisconsin, to compete before thousands of spectators and prove who is the best at chopping and sawing wood, log rolling, and boom running. The event, with its impressive international fan base, has become the most prestigious timber sport gathering in the world. Timber! chronicles the history of the championships since its inception in 1960 and highlights such popular athletes as J.R. Salzman, Ron Hartill, and Peggy Halvorson, all of whom are stalwarts in a variety of events from the hot saw to the springboard chop. These glory-seeking competitors symbolize a connection to the old days of logging in Wisconsin and throughout the United States, when timber-felling helped build the country. Lively and informative, Timber! shows how these timber sports keep alive the spirit of the logging world and the image of the logger as a pioneer.
Download or read book Leonardo s Hands written by Alois Hotschnig and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a hit-and-run accident which kills a couple and leaves their daughter in a coma, an Austrian motorist obtains a job as an ambulance driver to find her. He helps her recover and the two fall in love, but her past comes between them.
