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Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass: A Psychologist's Memoir
Contributor(s): Sawyer, Annita Perez (Author)
ISBN: 1939650267     ISBN-13: 9781939650269
Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project
OUR PRICE:   $16.16  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Psychology | Mental Health
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2014026915
Series: Sfwp Literary Awards
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 310 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
A fiercely honest and beautifully written book. --Paul Austin, author, Beautiful Eyes and Something for the Pain A cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and resilience Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transferred, labeled as unimproved. The damage done has haunted her life. Discharged in 1966, after finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer kept her past secret and moved on to graduate from Yale University, raise two children, and become a respected psychotherapist. That is, until 2001, when she reviewed her hospital records and began to remember a broken childhood and the even more broken mental health system of the 1950s and 1960s.