{"product_id":"9780743411509","title":"Life Inside","description":"Author: Mindy Lewis\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780743411509\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Atria Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Dec 2003\u003cbr\u003ePages: 368\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe patient is an ascetically pretty 15½-year-old white female. She is intelligent, fearful, extremely anxious, and depressed. Her rage is poorly controlled and inappropriately expressed.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDiagnostic Impression: Program for social recovery in a supportive and structured environment appears favorable.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLife Inside\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n In 1967, three months before her sixteenth birthday, Mindy Lewis was sent to a state psychiatric hospital by court order. She had been skipping school, smoking pot, and listening to too much Dylan. Her mother, at a loss for what else to do, decided that Mindy remain in state custody until she turned eighteen and became a legal, law-abiding, \"healthy\" adult. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLife Inside\u003c\/i\u003e is Mindy's story about her coming-of-age during those tumultuous years. In honest, unflinching prose, she paints a richly textured portrait of her stay on a psychiatric ward -- the close bonds and rivalries among adolescent patients, the politics and routines of institutional life, the extensive use of medication, and the prevalence of life-altering misdiagnoses. But this memoir also takes readers on a journey of recovery as Lewis describes her emergence into adulthood and her struggle to transcend the stigma of institutionalization. Bracingly told, and often terrifying in its truths,\u003ci\u003e Life Inside\u003c\/i\u003e is a life-affirming memoir that informs as it inspires.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46871673700510,"sku":"HPC-9780743411509","price":31.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780743411509.jpg?v=1779618908","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780743411509","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}