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Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass
A Psychologist's MemoirBy Annita Perez-SawyerNarrated by Annita Perez-SawyerLength10h 38m
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"A fiercely honest and beautifully written book." —Paul Austin, author,
Beautiful Eyes and
Something for the Pain
A cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and resilience Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transferred, labeled as "unimproved." The damage done has haunted her life. Discharged in 1966, after finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer kept her past secret and moved on to graduate from Yale University, raise two children, and become a respected psychotherapist. That is, until 2001, when she reviewed her hospital records and began to remember a broken childhood and the even more broken mental health system of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Rating★★★★ 4.2 (403)
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length10 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byAnnita Perez-Sawyer
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 1, 2016
LanguageEnglish
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