The last asylum
The last asylum
About this book
In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor's world contracted around her illness. Eventually, she was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institutions, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in London.
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- OL Work ID
- OL20005203W
Subjects
Mental healthMentally ill womenLondon (England)Psychiatric hospitalsInstitutional careMental illnessFriern HospitalLondon (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney HatchMentally ill, careWomenMentally illMental DisordersAutobiographyCommitment of Mentally IllHistoryInstitutionalizationMentally ill, great britainMentally Ill Persons