Bedlam: A Year in the Life of a Mental Hospital
- ISBN-10
- 1559721138
- ISBN-13
- 9781559721134
- Series
- Bedlam
- Category
- Social Science / General
- Pages
- 323
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Carol Publishing Group
- Author
- Dominick Bosco
Description
Bosco presents a biographical expose of conditions within a state mental hospital along. By providing an outsider's view of the situation, he offers a valuable counterpoint to books by former patients. Bosco's descriptions of violence, horror, filth, and gallows humor, plus portraits of caring but demoralized staff working against inept bureaucrats more concerned with their own comfort than that of their patients, make this an eye-opening experience. A troubling book, difficult to put down.
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