Research Catalog

Title

Women's encounters with the mental health establishment : escaping the yellow wallpaper / Elayne Clift, editor.

Publication

New York : Haworth Press, ©2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Clift, Elayne.

Description

xxiii, 217 pages; 22 cm

Summary

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 cum women's studies and health communications instructor, contributes a recollection of childhood visits to her institutionalized mother. Includes an afterword by a Purdue U. psychiatric nursing instructor. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Subject

• Mentally ill women > Care
• Women > Mental health services
• Chronically ill > Care
• Mentally ill women > Miscellanea
• Mental illness > Treatment
• Mental health services
• Women
• Mental Disorders > therapy
• Mental Health Services
• Mentally Ill Persons
• Women
• women (female humans)
• mentally ill
• Mental illness > Treatment
• Mental health services
• Chronically ill > Care
• Mentally ill women
• Mentally ill women > Care
• Women > Mental health services

Genre/Form

• Personal Narrative
• miscellanies.
• Personal narratives
• Trivia and miscellanea
• Trivia and miscellanea.
• Personal narratives.
• Récits personnels.
• Miscellanées.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword: Women as subjects of their experiences / Kelley L. Phillips -- Prologue: The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- I: Hospitals -- From The looney bin trip / Kate Millett -- Life inside / Mindy Lewis -- Ode to Carrie White / Elayne Clift -- From The bell jar / Sylvia Plath -- For love nor money / Anonymous -- Since you asked, here is why / Amy Stuber -- Death interrupted / Barbara Shooltz Kendzierski -- Outstanding charges / Barbara Shooltz Kendzierski -- Setup / Mary Hower -- Scream / J. Lisa Richesson -- Hospital / Anne Myra Benjamin -- Safe places / Catherine Ann Fabio -- Waiting room / Kathleen M. Kelley -- Home sweet nuthouse / Sara Kirschenbaum -- i remember / Hadiyah Carlyle -- Bathing in the bin / Jo Patti -- Outtakes / Elayne Clift -- You, Doctor Martin / Anne Sexton -- II: Therapy -- From Welcome to my country / Lauren Slater -- Caregivers' dance / Catherine Spensley -- Psychoanalyst's daughter: a memoir / Karen Wunsch -- Vested interests / Geraldine A.J. Sanford -- Putdown / Geraldine A.J. Sanford -- Is she really listening? / Anna Mills -- We go a little over the hour / Kathleen M. Kelley -- Suite 506 / Barbara Shooltz Kendzierski -- Escaping the cabin / Adrienne Ross -- Therapy / Celia Jeffries -- Preview / Nancy A. McMichael -- From Undercurrents / Martha Manning -- It's going to be a great daypro / Megeen R. Mulholland -- Transference / Beth Schorr Jaffe -- Consult / Mary Damon Peltier -- Why have you come to my office today? Why have you come to the hospital? / Mary Damon Peltier -- My last Freudian / Kake Huck -- Misinterpreting body / Cathleen Calbert -- Dr. Abe's psychotherapy / Shira Dentz -- Going out / Catherine Turnbull -- Therapy session / Sharon Carter -- Just one question doctor -- about my termination / Beth Schorr Jaffe -- Story of my therapy / Sondra Zeidenstein -- III: Hope -- Mrs. Gould / Mindy Lewis -- Woman knows it's time to quit therapy / Barbara Schmitz -- Simple prayer / Anonymous -- Clarity / Janet Ruth Heller -- Saying goodbye / Pamela Malone -- Keeping our distance / Lee Kottner -- Carol / Carol Barrett -- Reflections for a psychiatric resident / Barbara Shooltz Kendzierski -- When therapy works / Maryhelen Snyder -- Afterword / Wanda K. Mohr.

ISBN

• 0789015455
• 9780789015457
• 0789015463
• 9780789015464

LCCN

2001051595

OCLC

• ocm48131963
• 48131963
• SCSB-1259571

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library