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Examined Lives

Roberta Reb Allen

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Description:How did a vivacious, competent woman end up having a lobotomy at the hands of the same doctor who lobotomized Rosemary Kennedy and what effect did this have on her daughter? This is the focus of my memoir Examined Lives, which offers a no-holds barred look at mental illness. The book details the familial and societal forces that surrounded my mother’s mental illness and my own subsequent depressions. Drawing upon thousands of pages of personal letters, diaries, scrapbooks, poetry, photographs, drawings and an unpublished novel, I trace my mother’s path from 1930’s Chicago, where she devoured the nightlife and rose from serving at a Walgreen’s Drugstore to room captain at the Camellia Room of the Drake Hotel, frequented by the likes of Greta Garbo and Clark Gable, to her undergoing a lobotomy in 1950 and subsequently being institutionalized. In dealing with her mental illness, my mother had help from a surprising source and we both had help from people with very clear sighted kindness. This is a cautionary, but hopeful tale about the origins and treatment of mental illness,We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Examined Lives. To get started finding Examined Lives, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: How did a vivacious, competent woman end up having a lobotomy at the hands of the same doctor who lobotomized Rosemary Kennedy and what effect did this have on her daughter? This is the focus of my memoir Examined Lives, which offers a no-holds barred look at mental illness. The book details the familial and societal forces that surrounded my mother’s mental illness and my own subsequent depressions. Drawing upon thousands of pages of personal letters, diaries, scrapbooks, poetry, photographs, drawings and an unpublished novel, I trace my mother’s path from 1930’s Chicago, where she devoured the nightlife and rose from serving at a Walgreen’s Drugstore to room captain at the Camellia Room of the Drake Hotel, frequented by the likes of Greta Garbo and Clark Gable, to her undergoing a lobotomy in 1950 and subsequently being institutionalized. In dealing with her mental illness, my mother had help from a surprising source and we both had help from people with very clear sighted kindness. This is a cautionary, but hopeful tale about the origins and treatment of mental illness,We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Examined Lives. To get started finding Examined Lives, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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