Voluntary Madness

2008 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Norah Vincent
Release : 2008
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 717/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Voluntary Madness written by Norah Vincent. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to Self-Made Man traces the author's commitment to a mental institution, where she embraced health and made observations about the effect of institutionalization and medication on the depressed and insane. 100,000 first printing.

Voluntary Madness

2008-12-30 Psychology

Author : Norah Vincent
Release : 2008-12-30
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Voluntary Madness written by Norah Vincent. This book was released on 2008-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The New York Times bestseller Self- Made Man, a captivating expose of depression and mental illness in America Revelatory, deeply personal, and utterly relevant, Voluntary Madness is a controversial work that unveils the state of mental healthcare in the United States from the inside out. At the conclusion of her celebrated first book--Self-Made Man, in which she soent eighteen months disguised as a man-Norah Vincent found herself emotionally drained and severely depressed. Determined but uncertain about maintaining her own equilibrium, she boldly committed herself to three different facilities-a big-city hospital, a private clinic in the Midwest, and finally an upscale retreat in the South. Voluntary Madness is the chronicle of Vincent's journey through the world of the mentally ill as she struggles to find her own health and happiness.

Thy Neighbor

2013-07-30 Fiction

Author : Norah Vincent
Release : 2013-07-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Thy Neighbor written by Norah Vincent. This book was released on 2013-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norah Vincent’s first two books—the New York Times bestseller Self-Made Man and Voluntary Madness—were masterworks of immersion journalism. Now Vincent unleashes her considerable talents in a spellbinding novel that’s as provocative and absorbing as her acclaimed nonfiction. Since his parents’ violent deaths thirteen years ago, Nick Walsh has been living alone in his childhood home, drinking, drugging, and debauching himself into oblivion. Deranged by his relentless sorrow, he begins spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones. As he observes all the strange, sad, and terrifying things that people do when they think no one is watching, Nick begins to unravel the shocking truth about how and why his parents died.

Voluntary Madness

2018-12-06

Author : Vicki Hendricks
Release : 2018-12-06
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Book Rating : 088/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Voluntary Madness written by Vicki Hendricks. This book was released on 2018-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punch and Juliette make a pack to live a wild life in Key West for a year, creating scenes to use in his novel, with the climax a suicide during Fantasy Fest. But the money runs out early, and their escapades take a serious turn. Bohemian atmosphere, Romeo and Juliet on a motorcycle, the meaning of love explored at Coral Castle--in high gear.

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