A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography A Mental Health Memoir of Asylum Confinement, Recovery, and Patient Advocacy
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Sprache:Englisch
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Good PressSeitenzahl
112
Maße (L/B/H)
0,6/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
176 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-272-8621-8
A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography is a landmark first-person account of mental collapse, confinement, and recovery, recounting Clifford W. Beers's experiences in private and public institutions after a severe breakdown. Its style is lucid, controlled, and morally urgent: part confession, part testimony, part reform document. Published in 1908, it belongs to the Progressive Era literature of social exposure, standing beside muckraking narratives in its insistence that hidden institutions be judged by humane and rational standards. Beers was a Yale-educated businessman whose illness followed personal strain, including the death of his brother, and culminated in hospitalization from 1900 to 1903. The humiliations and brutalities he witnessed-and sometimes endured-became the basis for his lifelong advocacy. With support from figures such as William James and Adolf Meyer, he helped found the mental hygiene movement, transforming private suffering into public reform. This book is essential for readers interested in autobiography, psychiatry, disability history, and social reform. It remains compelling not simply as a record of abuse, but as an argument for dignity, treatment, and the patient's voice.
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