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Madeleine Roberts fears that she is losing her mind, but her search for treatment leads her into mortal danger. She decides to enter a psychiatric institution, where she is drugged and disoriented by electroconvulsive treatment until her will to live is almost broken. In Counting the Rivers Pearlie McNeill draws on her experiences as a patient in several psychiatric hospitals, along with chilling extracts from her own medical file, to create a gripping account of one woman's struggle to salvage her fragile sense of self from the onslaughts of a system that denies the humanity of all. Counting the Rivers is Pearlie McNeill's second book. Her first was One of the Family, the story of her childhood in Sydney.
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The story of one woman's encounter with the mental health system, this book moves between the author's own questions of sanity, to her certainty of the insanity of ECT and the intensive drug treatments that imprison her. Juxtaposing her own experiences with chilling extracts from her medical file, this text is a penetrating critique of medical secrecy, arrogance and ignorance.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Madeleine Roberts fears that she is losing her mind, but her search for treatment leads her into mortal danger. She decides to enter a psychiatric institution, where she is drugged and disoriented by electroconvulsive treatment until her will to live is almost broken.In Counting the Rivers Pearlie McNeill draws on her experiences as a patient in several psychiatric hospitals, along with chilling extracts from her own medical file, to create a gripping account of one woman's struggle to salvage her fragile sense of self from the onslaughts of a system that denies the humanity of all.Counting the Rivers is Pearlie McNeill's second book. Her first was One of the Family, the story of her childhood in Sydney. Madeleine Roberts fears that she is losing her mind, but her search for treatment leads her into mortal danger. She decides to enter a psychiatric institution, where she is drugged and disoriented by electroconvulsive treatment Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781862544529
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Madeleine Roberts fears that she is losing her mind, but her search for treatment leads her into mortal danger. She decides to enter a psychiatric institution, where she is drugged and disoriented by electroconvulsive treatment until her will to live is almost broken.In Counting the Rivers Pearlie McNeill draws on her experiences as a patient in several psychiatric hospitals, along with chilling extracts from her own medical file, to create a gripping account of one woman's struggle to salvage her fragile sense of self from the onslaughts of a system that denies the humanity of all.Counting the Rivers is Pearlie McNeill's second book. Her first was One of the Family, the story of her childhood in Sydney. Madeleine Roberts fears that she is losing her mind, but her search for treatment leads her into mortal danger. She decides to enter a psychiatric institution, where she is drugged and disoriented by electroconvulsive treatment Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781862544529
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