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Committed : on meaning and madwomen / Suzanne Scanlon.
Van Pelt Library RC451.4.W6 S33 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scanlon, Suzanne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scanlon, Suzanne.
- Women--Mental health.
- Women.
- Involuntary treatment--Social aspects.
- Involuntary treatment.
- Mentally ill--Commitment and detention.
- Mentally ill.
- Psychiatric hospitals--Sociological aspects.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Psychiatric hospital patients--Social conditions.
- Psychiatric hospital patients.
- Mentally ill women--Social conditions.
- Mentally ill women.
- Commitment of Mentally Ill.
- Medical Subjects:
- Commitment of Mentally Ill.
- Genre:
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 349 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024.
- Summary:
- "When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother-feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain-she made a suicide attempt at twenty years old that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. After nearly four years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering as part of something larger. She began to see herself as part of a long tradition of women whose stories are reduced to "crazy chick" narratives, rather than stories of women who forged complicated and compromised stories of self-actualization: Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Frances Farmer, Jean Seberg, Sylvia Plath, Shulamith Firestone. It was a thrilling discovery, and she searched for more books, more woman writers, as the journey of her life converged with her journey through the literature that shapes and ultimately saves her. Committed is Suzanne's story about discovery and recovery, reclaiming the idea of the "madwoman" as one template for insight and transcendence. Committed ducks and weaves through the works of these seminal madwomen via Suzanne's own story of resilience and being. She paints vivid portraits of friends and lovers, life on the ward and after, and the women who saved her life by encouraging her to live it"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The moving target of being
- Return
- My insanities and all the rest
- The vortex effect
- A way of becoming
- With bags
- Duraspace, or the book as a room (I)
- At point zero
- Working the trap
- The psychoanalyst
- Women's studies
- Sitting Still
- The book as a room (II)
- Toward a theory of my illness (I)
- Without cure
- Stuck in the story
- I saw the figure 5 in gold
- Asylum Architecture (I)
- The fifth floor
- Too much
- Time passes
- A nervous condition, or what can one do?
- Asylum architecture (II)
- Tell me who I am
- Septimus
- Hank, a memoir (I)
- melting
- Interlude, 2022
- Elena
- Hank, a memoir (II)
- Family therapy
- Blossom
- The spider's web
- Grace
- Duras Now
- Then you will never be happy
- Off the couch
- Mirror city
- Toward a theory of my illness (II)
- The notebooks
- Last Days of the Long-term ward
- All of us vanishing
- Toward a theory of my illness (III)
- Good old Nardil
- The shadow story
- Angry women
- On recovery (I)
- The homelessness of self
- The carceral
- Q&A
- Skepticism and affirmation
- On recovery (II)
- You seem so normal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Scanlon, Suzanne. Committed.
- ISBN:
- 9780593469101
- 0593469100
- OCLC:
- 1409418930
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