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The Last Asylum

A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

Barbara Taylor
Psychiatry, Psychiatric disorders
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  • The Last Asylum - 9780241951828
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The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's haunting memoir of her journey through the UK mental health system. A Radio 4 Book of The Week Shortlisted For The RBC Taylor Prize. In July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institution: Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital. This searingly honest, thought-provoking and beautifully written memoir is the story of the author's madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth century. It is a meditation on her own experience of breakdown and healing, but also that of the millions of other people who have suffered, are suffering, will suffer mental illness. "Personal story, psychoanalytic process, the experience of madness, the feel of being an inpatient in the last days of Friern, the history of the asylum...A beautiful memoir, engrossing." (Independent). "Moving, brave and intelligent." (Susan Hill, The Times). "Dazzling. A great achievement, full of life and hope." (Sunday Telegraph).Barbara Taylor's previous books include an award-winning study of nineteenth-century socialist feminism, Eve and the New Jerusalem; an intellectual biography of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft; and On Kindness, a defence of fellow feeling co-written with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. She is a longstanding editor of the leading history journal, History Workshop Journal, and a director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. She teaches History and English at Queen Mary University of London.
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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
March 5, 2015
Pages
320
ISBN
9780241951828
Format
Paperback
Reviews
Eloquent, compassionate, and utterly absorbing ... The Last Asylum is the best sort of memoir, transcending the purely personal to confront a larger social history -- Sarah Waters Beautiful ... it is hard to write well enough about this book because it is so good -- Susie Orbach Independent A wise, considered and timely book -- Hilary Mantel Moving, brave and intelligent -- Susan Hill The Times Superb. Riveting, insightful and relentlessly honest -- Darian Leader An impressive book, strong on narrative, deeply felt and measured in tone... The Last Asylum will stand the test of time. Literary Review

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