The loony-bin trip

Kate Millett Aurora Echevarría Pérez First published 1990

About this book

*The Loony-Bin Trip* is the gripping personal story of Kate Millett's struggle to regain control of her life after being diagnosed as manic-depressive. Through a searing circle of events beginning with Millett's decision to go off medication, and a summer of increasingly ominous doubts about her own sanity and the loyalty of her friends, to a hellish sojurn in an Irish mental hospital and a paralyzing bout of depression, Millett shows us from the inside what devastation the specter of madness can cause. Shockingly honest, *The Loony-Bin Trip* may revolutionize the way we think about mental illness.

Subjects

  • antipsychiatry
  • antipsychiatry.
  • biography
  • bipolar disorder
  • institutionalization
  • mental health
  • millett, kate, 1934-
  • millett, kate -- mental health.
  • new york times reviewed
  • personal narratives
  • psychotherapy
  • psychotherapy patients
  • psychotherapy patients -- united states -- biography.
  • therapy