The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Autor Barbara Tayloren Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2015
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In July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institution: Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital.
This searingly honest, thought-provoking and beautifully written memoir is the story of the author's madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth century. It is a meditation on her own experience of breakdown and healing, but also that of the millions of other people who have suffered, are suffering, will suffer mental illness.
'Personal story, psychoanalytic process, the experience of madness, the feel of being an inpatient in the last days of Friern, the history of the asylum . . . A beautiful memoir, engrossing'Independent
'Moving, brave and intelligent' Susan Hill,The Times
'Dazzling. A great achievement, full of life and hope'Sunday Telegraph
Barbara Taylor's previous books include an award-winning study of nineteenth-century socialist feminism,Eve and the New Jerusalem; an intellectual biography of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft; andOn Kindness, a defence of fellow feeling co-written with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. She is a longstanding editor of the leading history journal,History Workshop Journal, and a director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. She teaches History and English at Queen Mary University of London.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241951828
ISBN-10: 0241951828
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241951828
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Barbara
Taylor's
previous
books
include
an
award-winning
study
of
nineteenth-century
socialist
feminism,Eve
and
the
New
Jerusalem;
an
intellectual
biography
of
the
pioneer
feminist
Mary
Wollstonecraft;
andOn
Kindness,
a
defence
of
fellow
feeling
co-written
with
the
psychoanalyst
Adam
Phillips.
She
is
a
longstanding
editor
of
the
leading
history
journal,History
Workshop
Journal,
and
a
director
of
the
Raphael
Samuel
History
Centre.
She
teaches
History
and
English
at
Queen
Mary
University
of
London.
Recenzii
Eloquent,
compassionate,
and
utterly
absorbing
.
.
.The
Last
Asylumis
the
best
sort
of
memoir,
transcending
the
purely
personal
to
confront
a
larger
social
history
Beautiful . . . it is hard to write well enough about this book because it is so good
A wise, considered and timely book
Moving, brave and intelligent
Superb. Riveting, insightful and relentlessly honest
An impressive book, strong on narrative, deeply felt and measured in tone... The Last Asylum will stand the test of time.
A gripping (often painful) account of madness, a fascinating description of psychoanalysis, a historical reflection on asylums and a meditation of the interrelationships between care and cure...Unsparing [and] subtly theoretical, an endeavor not only worth reading, but worth emulating.
A fascinating if harrowing journey . . . Taylor is a deft and engaging historian
Barbara Taylor's [memoir] is not to be missed. . . An extraordinarily measured, fascinating and honest account, that stands out within the genre... Her book can be compared with Helen Macdonald'sH is for Hawk. . . Barbara Taylor is to be applauded foran important and original contribution
Beautiful . . . it is hard to write well enough about this book because it is so good
A wise, considered and timely book
Moving, brave and intelligent
Superb. Riveting, insightful and relentlessly honest
An impressive book, strong on narrative, deeply felt and measured in tone... The Last Asylum will stand the test of time.
A gripping (often painful) account of madness, a fascinating description of psychoanalysis, a historical reflection on asylums and a meditation of the interrelationships between care and cure...Unsparing [and] subtly theoretical, an endeavor not only worth reading, but worth emulating.
A fascinating if harrowing journey . . . Taylor is a deft and engaging historian
Barbara Taylor's [memoir] is not to be missed. . . An extraordinarily measured, fascinating and honest account, that stands out within the genre... Her book can be compared with Helen Macdonald'sH is for Hawk. . . Barbara Taylor is to be applauded foran important and original contribution