Asylum
(2015)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla, 2015
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780486806310 (electronic bk.) MWT11607529, 0486806316 (electronic bk.) 11607529
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
This dramatic memoir recounts an eight-month stay at a Westchester mental hospital in the early 1930s. William Seabrook, a renowned journalist and explorer, voluntarily committed himself to an asylum for treatment of acute alcoholism. His sincere, self-critical appraisal of his experiences offers a highly interesting look at addiction and treatment in the days before Alcoholics Anonymous and other modern programs. This edition of the soul-baring narrative features a new graphic novel-style introduction by Joe Ollmann, who also created the cover art
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