1st Edition
Women's Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper
Edited By Elayne Clift
Copyright 2002
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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Explore women’s first-person experiences with the mental health establishment!
This unique contemporary anthology of women’s experiential writing shares women’s realities, perceptions, and experiences (positive and negative) within the therapeutic environment. These artistic expressions of personal experience will help women understand their own encounters in a new light. They are also... Read more
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Foreword: Women As Subjects of Their Experiences
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: The Yellow Wallpaper
- I. Hospitals
- From The Looney Bin Trip
- Life Inside
- Ode to Carrie White
- From The Bell Jar
- For Love Nor Money
- Since You Asked, Here Is Why
- Death Interrupted
- Outstanding Charges
- The Setup
- The Scream
- Hospital
- Safe Places
- The Waiting Room
- Home Sweet Nuthouse
- i remember
- Bathing in the Bin
- Outtakes
- You, Dr. Martin
- II. Therapy
- From Welcome to My Country
- The Caregiver’s Dance
- The Psychoanalyst’s Daughter: A Memoir
- Vested Interests
- Putdown
- Is She Really Listening?
- We Go a Little Over the Hour
- Suite 506
- Escaping the Cabin
- Therapy
- Preview
- From Undercurrents
- It’s Going to Be a Great Daypro
- Side Effects May Include:
- Transference
- Consult
- Why Have You Come to My Office Today? Why Have You Come to the Hospital?
- My Last Freudian
- Fragments
- Misinterpreting Body
- Dr. Abe’s Psychotherapy
- Going Out
- Therapy Session
- Just One Question Doctor—About My Termination
- The Story of My Therapy
- III. Hope
- Mrs. Gould
- Woman Knows It’s Time to Quit Therapy
- Simple Prayer
- Clarity
- Saying Goodbye
- Keeping Our Distance
- Carol
- Reflections for a Psychiatric Resident
- When Therapy Works
- Afterword
Biography
Elayne Clift
