Inside the Mental: Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD

by Kay Parley

Book Overview

Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met. Part memoir, part history, and beautifully written, Inside The Mental offers an episodic journey into the stigma, horror, and redemption that she found within the institution's walls.

Now in her nineties, Parley looks back at the emerging use of group therapy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889774110
• ISBN13: 9780889774117
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.6" x 6.8"