Author: Michael Winerip
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307820505
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Before Julie Callahan came to the house at 9 Highland Road in Glen Cove, New York, she had spent a good part of her young life in mental hospitals, her mental and emotional coherence nearly destroyed by a childhood of sexual abuse. Fred Grasso, a schizophrenic, had lived in a filthy single-room occupancy hotel. At 9 Highland Road they and their housemates were given a decent alternative to lives in institutions or in the streets. It was a place in which some even found the chance to get better. This perfectly observed and passionately imagined book takes us inside one of the supervised group homes that, in an age of shrinking state budgets and psychotropic drugs, have emerged as the backbone of America's mental health system. As it follows the progress and setbacks of residents, their families, and counselors and notes the embittered resistance their presence initially aroused in the neighborhood, 9 Highland Road succeeds in opening the locked world of mental illness. It does so with an empathy and insight that will change forever the way we understand and act in relation to that world.
9 Highland Road
Author: Michael Winerip
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307820505
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Before Julie Callahan came to the house at 9 Highland Road in Glen Cove, New York, she had spent a good part of her young life in mental hospitals, her mental and emotional coherence nearly destroyed by a childhood of sexual abuse. Fred Grasso, a schizophrenic, had lived in a filthy single-room occupancy hotel. At 9 Highland Road they and their housemates were given a decent alternative to lives in institutions or in the streets. It was a place in which some even found the chance to get better. This perfectly observed and passionately imagined book takes us inside one of the supervised group homes that, in an age of shrinking state budgets and psychotropic drugs, have emerged as the backbone of America's mental health system. As it follows the progress and setbacks of residents, their families, and counselors and notes the embittered resistance their presence initially aroused in the neighborhood, 9 Highland Road succeeds in opening the locked world of mental illness. It does so with an empathy and insight that will change forever the way we understand and act in relation to that world.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307820505
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Before Julie Callahan came to the house at 9 Highland Road in Glen Cove, New York, she had spent a good part of her young life in mental hospitals, her mental and emotional coherence nearly destroyed by a childhood of sexual abuse. Fred Grasso, a schizophrenic, had lived in a filthy single-room occupancy hotel. At 9 Highland Road they and their housemates were given a decent alternative to lives in institutions or in the streets. It was a place in which some even found the chance to get better. This perfectly observed and passionately imagined book takes us inside one of the supervised group homes that, in an age of shrinking state budgets and psychotropic drugs, have emerged as the backbone of America's mental health system. As it follows the progress and setbacks of residents, their families, and counselors and notes the embittered resistance their presence initially aroused in the neighborhood, 9 Highland Road succeeds in opening the locked world of mental illness. It does so with an empathy and insight that will change forever the way we understand and act in relation to that world.
The Inns of Court Officers Training Corps During the Great War
Author: Francis Henry Launcelot Errington
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Boston's Streets
Author: Boston (Mass.). Board of Street Commissioners
Publisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Official Catalogue and the Boston 1915 Year Book ...
Author:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Annual Report of the School Committee and the ... Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Schools
Author: Lowell (Mass.). School Committee
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Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
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Publisher:
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Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
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Annual Report of the School Committee of Somerville, for the School Year ...
Author: School Committee of Somerville (Mass.)
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Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Publisher:
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Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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The Daily Bond Buyer
Author:
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Category : Bonds
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bonds
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
Book Description
Catalogue of Andover Theological Seminary, ...
Author: Andover Theological Seminary
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Year-book and Record
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Includes list of members.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Includes list of members.
Transcript of Enrollment Books
Author: New York (N.Y.). Board of Elections
Publisher:
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Category : Voting registers
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voting registers
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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