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A follow-up to Self-Made Man traces the author's commitment to a mental institution, where she embraced health and made observations about the effect of institutionalization and medication on the depressed and insane. 100,000 first printing.
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'The writing is tight, funny and butch... full of brilliant observations'. -- Sunday Times Culture
"it's moving to watch [Vincent] relearn the basic lessons of life". -- Scotsman
"the book is full of alarming detail, thanks to her innate curiosity (aka pushiness and nosiness) and exhaustive note-taking".
-- The Guardian
`A worthwhile and surprisingly easy read for anyone interested in mental illness'. -- Financial Times
`Vincent gains, and is able to share, an insight into the pattern of her depression and learn some useful coping' -- Time Out
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"it's moving to watch [Vincent] relearn the basic lessons of life". -- Scotsman
"the book is full of alarming detail, thanks to her innate curiosity (aka pushiness and nosiness) and exhaustive note-taking".
-- The Guardian
`A worthwhile and surprisingly easy read for anyone interested in mental illness'. -- Financial Times
`Vincent gains, and is able to share, an insight into the pattern of her depression and learn some useful coping' -- Time Out
Bestselling 'immersion' journalist Norah Vincent takes on the mental health system - but when she gets sectioned she discovers that she's not just there to report, she's there to be cured
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- PublisherViking Pr
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0670019712
- ISBN 13 9780670019717
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- Number of pages287
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