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Book 1991

Loony Bin Trip

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Publisher
Touchstone
Language
English
Published
1991
  • General
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • United States
  • Specific Groups - Special Needs
  • Manic-depressive psychoses
  • Biography
  • Depression, Mental
  • Feminists

The Loony-Bin Trip is the gripping personal story of Kate Millett's struggle to regain control of her life after being diagnosed as manic-depressive. Through a searing circle of events beginning with Millett's decision to go off medication, and a summer of increasingly ominous doubts about her own sanity and the loyalty of her friends, to a hellish sojurn in an Irish mental hospital and a paralyzing bout of depression, Millett shows us from the inside what devastation the specter of madness can cause. Shockingly honest, The Loony-Bin Trip may revolutionize the way we think about mental illness.