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The patient is an ascetically pretty 151/2-year-old white female. She is intelligent, fearful, extremely anxious, and depressed. Her rage is poorly controlled and inappropriately expressed. "Diagnostic Impression: Program for social recovery in a supportive and structured environment appears favorable." Life Inside In 1967, three months before her sixteenth birthday, Mindy Lewis was sent to a state psychiatric hospital by court order. She had been skipping school, smoking pot, and listening to too much Dylan. Her mother, at a loss for what else to do, decided that Mindy remain in state custody until she turned eighteen and became a legal, law-abiding, "healthy" adult. "Life Inside" is Mindy's story about her coming-of-age during those tumultuous years. In honest, unflinching prose, she paints a richly textured portrait of her stay on a psychiatric ward -- the close bonds and rivalries among adolescent patients, the politics and routines of institutional life, the extensive use of medication, and the prevalence of life-altering misdiagnoses. But this memoir also takes readers on a journey of recovery as Lewis describes her emergence into adulthood and her struggle to transcend the stigma of institutionalization. Bracingly told, and often terrifying in its truths," Life Inside" is a life-affirming memoir that informs as it inspires.

Book details

• Full title: Life Inside: A Memoir
• Author: Mindy Lewis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780743411509
• ISBN: 0743411501
• ID: 11477629
• Publisher: WASHINGTON SQUARE
• Weight: 313 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 135 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: November 2003

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