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Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass: A Psychologist's Memoir

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Availability:In StockContributor:Annita Perez SawyerSeries:Sfwp Literary AwardsPublish date:2015-06-01Pages:310
Language:EnglishPublisher:Santa Fe Writer's ProjectISBN-13:9781939650269ISBN-10:1939650267UPC:9781939650269Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Women, Mental Health, MemoirsSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC0S9QHFEC
"A fiercely honest and beautifully written book." --Paul Austin, author, Beautiful Eyes and Something for the Pain A cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and resilience Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transferred, labeled as "unimproved." The damage done has haunted her life. Discharged in 1966, after finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer kept her past secret and moved on to graduate from Yale University, raise two children, and become a respected psychotherapist. That is, until 2001, when she reviewed her hospital records and began to remember a broken childhood and the even more broken mental health system of the 1950s and 1960s.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Santa Fe Writer's ProjectISBN-13:9781939650269ISBN-10:1939650267UPC:9781939650269Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Women, Mental Health, MemoirsSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC0S9QHFEC
Annita Perez Sawyer has had a psychology practice for more than 30 years, and she is a member of the clinical faculty at Yale University. Her essays have won prizes and been included among the "Notables" in the Best American Essays series. She lives in North Branford, Connecticut.
Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project

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