Committed : a memoir of finding meaning in madness
Scanlon, Suzanne2024
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When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s and grieving the loss of her mother, she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. After nearly three years, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering as part of something larger: a long tradition of women whose complicated and compromised stories of self-discovery are reduced to 'madwoman' narratives. Suzanne recounts her story alongside her reading of writers from the 'madwoman canon' - including Audre Lorde, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and radical feminist Shulamith Firestone. The result is a profoundly moving journey through madness, from breakdown to breakthrough, and a revelatory exploration of being a woman and being mad - and how interwoven those experiences can be.
Main title:
Committed : a memoir of finding meaning in madness / Suzanne Scanlon.
Author:
Scanlon, Suzanne, author
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2024.
Collation:
xiii, 349 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781399804806 (hbk)
Dewey class:
616.890092616.89
Language:
English
Related title:
Committed : a memoir of finding meaning in madness
Subject:
Scanlon, Suzanne -- Mental healthWomen -- Mental healthWomen -- Mental health servicesInvoluntary treatment -- Social aspectsMentally ill -- Commitment and detentionPsychiatric hospitals -- Sociological aspectsPsychiatric hospital patients -- Social conditionsMentally ill women -- Social conditionsHealth and WellbeingBiography: generalMemoirsGender studies: women & girlsClinical & internal medicineCoping with illness & specific conditions
BRN:
1412468