Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass: A Psychologist's Memoir Contributor(s): Sawyer, Annita Perez (Author) |
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ISBN: 1939650267 ISBN-13: 9781939650269 Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
Additional Information |
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 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
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. |