{"product_id":"smoking-cigarettes-eating-glass-annita-perez-sawyer-9781939650269","title":"Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass: A Psychologist's Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\"A fiercely honest and beautifully written book.\"\" -Paul Austin, author, \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSomething for the Pain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eA cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and resilience\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annita Perez Sawyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1939650267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939650269\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Santa Fe Writer's Project\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2015 pg. 104","brand":"Annita Perez Sawyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995182465279,"sku":"9781939650269","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b51f859c-d0c7-4aeb-9c89-5893ba4cfb11.jpg?v=1683334321","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/smoking-cigarettes-eating-glass-annita-perez-sawyer-9781939650269","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}