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The last asylum : a memoir of madness in our times / Barbara Taylor.
LIBRA RC451.4.W6 T39 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Barbara, 1950 April 11- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taylor, Barbara, 1950 April 11-.
- Taylor, Barbara.
- Friern Hospital.
- Mental Disorders.
- Mentally ill--Institutional care.
- Mentally ill.
- Women--Mental health.
- Mental health.
- United Kingdom.
- Great Britain.
- Commitment of Mentally Ill.
- Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
- Institutionalization--history.
- Taylor, Barbara, 1950 April 11---Mental health.
- Women--Mental health--Great Britain.
- Women.
- Mentally ill--Institutional care--Great Britain.
- London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
- London (England).
- Medical Subjects:
- Mental Disorders.
- United Kingdom.
- Commitment of Mentally Ill.
- Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
- Institutionalization--history.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 289 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hamish Hamilton, 2014.
- Summary:
- Begins with Barbara Taylor's visit to the innocuously named Princess Park Manor in Friern Barnet, North London - a picture of luxury and repose. But this is the former site of one of England's most infamous lunatic asylums, the Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Aslyum at Colney Hatch.
- Contents:
- Part One
- 1. Beginning
- 2. History
- 3. Spain
- 4. Genius
- 5. Dead Babies
- 6. God
- 7. Sex
- 8. Hunger
- 9. Filth
- 10. Crisis
- 11. Women
- 12. Bad Dreaming
- 13. Inferno
- Part Two
- 14. The Asylum
- 15. First Day
- 16. In the Bin
- 17. Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
- 18. Friendship
- 19. Mad Women
- 20. Day Patient
- 21. The Hostel
- Part Three
- 22. Change
- 23. Separation
- 24. Cure
- 25. Stories
- 26. Endings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780241145098
- 0241145090
- OCLC:
- 864085595
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