A Mind That Found Itself

By Clifford Whittingham Beers Clifford Whittingham Beers

Subjects: 1876-1943, Physicians, Care, Care and treatment, Biography, Psychiatry, Insane, Biographies, Mentally ill, biography, Insanity, Therapy, Équipements de santé mentale, Mental illness, Mentally ill, Maladies mentales, Médecins, Personal Narratives, Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale, Psychiatric Hospitals, Mental health, Hôpitaux psychiatriques, Réforme, Psychiatric hospital care, Reform, Insanity (Law), History, Récits personnels, Mental health facilities, Personal narratives, Mental Disorders, Mental physiology and hygiene, Rehabilitation, Soins

Description: This book tells the story of a young man who is gradually enveloped by a psychosis. His well-meaning family commits him to a series of mental hospitals, but he is brutalized by the treatment, and his moments of fleeting sanity become fewer and fewer. His ultimate recovery is a triumph on the human spirit.