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1 online resource (339 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cover; Title Page; Author's Note and Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Epigraph; Prologue: Pay Attention; PART ONE: Locked Up ; CHAPTER ONE: Swept Away; CHAPTER TWO: Hamlet and Me; CHAPTER THREE: Shocked; CHAPTER FOUR: Let's Try Again; CHAPTER FIVE: Ode to Joy; CHAPTER SIX: Gargoyles, Saints, and Harold Searles; CHAPTER SEVEN: More Life Inside; CHAPTER EIGHT: Finishing Touches; PART TWO: Moving Out; CHAPTER NINE: By the Front Door; CHAPTER TEN: Courtship; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Champagne, Cake, and Uncooked Rice; CHAPTER TWELVE: Modified Magic; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Bat Radar. |
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Other ChairCHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Next Chapter; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: His Tongue Cut Out; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Up the Hill; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Working Out; CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Right Thing; CHAPTER TWENTY: Here for Today; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Look What I've Overcome; PART THREE: Lost and Found; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: One of Those; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Hanging On Backward; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Rewind; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: The Body Knows; CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The Little Annita; CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Opera with Genny; CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Ghost Dreams. |
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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Are We There Yet?CHAPTER THIRTY: Balance, Moderation, Peace; CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Reunion; Acknowledgments; About the Author; A Note from the Publisher. |
| Summary |
Dr. Annita Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transfered, labeled as "unimproved." The damage done has haunted her life. Discharged in 1966, after finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer kept her past secret and moved on to graduate from Yale University, raise two children, and become a respected psychotherapist. That is, until 2001, when she reviewed her. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Sawyer, Annita Perez -- Mental health.
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Sawyer, Annita Perez. |
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Mental health. |
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Mentally ill -- United States -- Biography.
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Mentally ill. |
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United States. |
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Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Psychologists. |
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Psychiatric hospital care -- United States -- History.
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Psychiatric hospital care. |
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History. |
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Psychiatric errors -- United States.
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Psychiatric errors. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Sawyer, Annita Perez. Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass : A Psychologist's Memoir. Chicago : Santa Fe Writer's Project, ©2015 9781939650269 |
| ISBN |
9781939650276 (electronic book) |
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1939650275 (electronic book) |
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9781939650290 (electronic book) |
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1939650291 (electronic book) |
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9781939650269 |
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