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008    140710s2015    nmu           000 0aeng   
010      2014026915 
020    9781939650269|q(pbk. : alk. paper) 
020    1939650267|q(pbk. : alk. paper) 
035    (OCoLC)883749022 
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100 1  Sawyer, Annita Perez,|eauthor. 
245 10 Smoking cigarettes, eating glass :|ba psychologist's 
       memoir /|cAnnita Perez Sawyer, PhD. 
250    First paperback edition. 
264  1 Santa Fe, NM :|bSFWP,|c[2015] 
300    324 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    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 hospital records and began to 
       remember a broken childhood and the even more broken 
       mental health system of the 1950s and 1960s, Revisiting 
       scenes from her childhood and assembling the pieces of a 
       lost puzzle, her autobiography is a cautionary tale of 
       careless psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, both 50 
       years ago and today. It is an informative story about 
       understanding PTSD and making emotional sense of events 
       that can lead a soul to darkness. Most of all, it's a 
       story of perseverance: pain, acceptance, healing, hope, 
       and success. Hers is a unique voice for this generation, 
       shedding light on an often misunderstood illness. 
600 10 Sawyer, Annita Perez|xMental health. 
650  0 Mentally ill|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Psychologists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Psychiatric hospital care|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Psychiatric errors|zUnited States. 
710 2  Santa Fe Writers Project. 
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