Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System by Vincent, Norah

Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143116851)

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Format: Paperback
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Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System by Vincent, Norah

Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System

$24.00
Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System by Vincent, Norah

Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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From the author of The New York Times bestseller Self- Made Man, a captivating expose of depression and mental illness in America

Revelatory, deeply personal, and utterly relevant, Voluntary Madness is a controversial work that unveils the state of mental healthcare in the United States from the inside out. At the conclusion of her celebrated first book--Self-Made Man, in which she soent eighteen months disguised as a man-Norah Vincent found herself emotionally drained and severely depressed.

Determined but uncertain about maintaining her own equilibrium, she boldly committed herself to three different facilities-a big-city hospital, a private clinic in the Midwest, and finally an upscale retreat in the South. Voluntary Madness is the chronicle of Vincent's journey through the world of the mentally ill as she struggles to find her own health and happiness.

Author: Norah Vincent
ISBN-10: 0143116851
ISBN-13: 9780143116851
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 12/29/2009
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/27/2009 pg. 20
By Norah Vincent
By Norah Vincent
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Norah Vincent (1968-2022) was the New York Times bestselling author of the nonfiction books Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man and Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System, as well as two works of fiction: Thy Neighbor and Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf. Formerly an op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times, her work also appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, and the Washington Post, and she contributed regularly to Salon, the Advocate, and the Village Voice. She was a longtime resident of New York City before her passing in 2022.

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