The Last Asylum

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The Last Asylum
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9780226273921
ISBN-13 : 022627392X
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Book excerpt: In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor's world contracted around her illness. Eventually, she was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institutions, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in London


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