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Detailed Personal Development Book Information
- Title:
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
- Reading Level: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- No. of Pages: 352
- Language:
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub. Date: 1983-05-12
- ISBN: 0394713788
- Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 5.1 x 0.9 x 7.9
- Shipping Weight: 0.8
- Average Customer Review:
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Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Review
Source: Product Description" A brilliantly documented chronicle of young woman's long struggle with schizophrenia."
-- Willard Gaylin, The New Republic
"Sylvia Frumkin," highly intelligent young girl, became a schizophrenic in her late teens and spent most of the next seventeen years in anti out of mental institutions. Susan Sheehan, a talented reporter followed "Sylvia" for almost a year talking with and observing her listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with doctors, even for a period sleeping in the bed next to her in a mental hospital.
"Susan Sheehan has committed an extraordinary act of journalism....She brings relentless intelligent attention to bear on a particular case, a journalistic practice that almost always results in new and disturbing insights into those mindless generalities and prejudice and certitudes we tend to carry around with us." -- Meg Greenfield, front page Washington Post Book World
"Sheehan is tenacious, observant and unsentimental. The history of a single patient leads us into a maze of understaffed institutions, bureaucratic fumbling, trial-and-error treatment and familial incomprehension. Though Sheehan keeps herself invisible, her sympathy is palpable."
-- Walter Clemons, Newsweek
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