Norah Vincenttalked about Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin (Viking December 30, 2008). Eye opening, emotionally wrenching, and at times very funny, Voluntary Madness is a riveting work that exposes the state of mental healthcare in America from. She also formerly wrote an op-ed column for the Los Angeles Times. Norah Vincent’s writing has appeared in several publications, including the New Republic, the Village Voice, and the Washington Post. Following her remarks she responded to questions from members of the audience. In the book she presents the disparate care she received in the different facilities. Voluntary madness : my year lost and found in the loony bin Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Then, to explore the current state of the mental health indusry as weel as attending to her own mental health, she also spent time in a rural private psychiatric hospital and an alternative-treatment program. Norah Vincent Voluntary Madness Like so many other high school discipline cases, hed probably been given some hybrid cockamamie ADHD- bipolar diagnosis at a very young age and been medicated into submission for the benefit of his homeroom teacher. Struggling with conflicts about that time period, she checked herself into the psychiatric ward of a hospital. In her previous book Self-Made Man, she assumed the role of a man for eighteen months. T10:26:31-05:00 Norah Vincent talked about Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin (Viking December 30, 2008).
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