Elaine Erickson
Beyond Bedlam
Contributors:
- Victoria Papers
- Rae E. Unzicker
- Myrna Renner
- Myra Lilliana Splitrock
- Margaret Robison
- Lorelee Stewart
- Kris Yates
- Judi Chamberlin
- Jodi Lundgren
- Jeanine Grobe
- Janice L. Norman
- Janet Gotkin
- Janet Foner
- Elaine Erickson
- Dorothy Washburn Dundas
- Dee dee Bloom
- Clover
- Catherine Odette
- Bluebird
- Betty Blaska
- Beth Greenspan
- Batya Weinbaum
- Anne Lawton Lunt
- Anne C. Woodlen
- Angie Hopkins Hart
- Angela Browne
Keywords:
Date: 1995
- Women
- witness
- speaking out
- Short Stories
- psychiatric survivors
- mental illness
- Madness
- institutionalization
- healing
- feminist therapy
- difference
- abuse
Edition: 1st
Abstract: Short, nonfiction stories written by women survivors of the psychiatric system. Organized into three main sections; When the World Can't Face It's Fear We Get Locked Up, It Doesn't Have to Be Forever, Standing Our Ground: The Political Context of "Madness", women tell stories of their experiences of going through treatment and their lives beyond institutionalization.
Language:
EnglishISSN/ISBN: 1879427222
Catalog Number: Book, Beyond Bedlam
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