Women's Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment: Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper

ISBN-13: 9780789015457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 242 str.

Elayne Clift

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Commencing with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, the iconic 1892 short story on women's quest for mental health, this anthology includes 53 personal essays and poems on struggles toward hope and recovery by Sylvia Plath, Kate Millet, Anne Sexton, and lesser-known writers, therapists, and /former patients. Clift, a Vermont writer c

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• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Foreword: Women As Subjects of Their Experiences
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue: The Yellow Wallpaper
• I. Hospitals
• From The Looney Bin Trip
• Life Inside
• Ode to Carrie White
• From The Bell Jar
• For Love Nor Money
• Since You Asked, Here Is Why
• Death Interrupted
• Outstanding Charges
• The Setup
• The Scream
• Hospital
• Safe Places
• The Waiting Room
• Home Sweet Nuthouse
• i remember
• Bathing in the Bin
• Outtakes
• You, Dr. Martin
• II. Therapy
• From Welcome to My Country
• The Caregiver’s Dance
• The Psychoanalyst’s Daughter: A Memoir
• Vested Interests
• Putdown
• Is She Really Listening?
• We Go a Little Over the Hour
• Suite 506
• Escaping the Cabin
• Therapy
• Preview
• From Undercurrents
• It’s Going to Be a Great Daypro
• Side Effects May Include:
• Transference
• Consult
• Why Have You Come to My Office Today? Why Have You Come to the Hospital?
• My Last Freudian
• Fragments
• Misinterpreting Body
• Dr. Abe’s Psychotherapy
• Going Out
• Therapy Session
• Just One Question Doctor—About My Termination
• The Story of My Therapy
• III. Hope
• Mrs. Gould
• Woman Knows It’s Time to Quit Therapy
• Simple Prayer
• Clarity
• Saying Goodbye
• Keeping Our Distance
• Carol
• Reflections for a Psychiatric Resident
• When Therapy Works
• Afterword

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Elayne Clift