Bedlam's Door: True Tales of Madness and Hope

Bedlam's Door: True Tales of Madness and Hope

Why would a man, born in Hungary and living on Manhattan's Lower East Side, run down Delancey Street while ranting "I'm king of the Puerto Ricans"?

What would compel a physically healthy woman to persuade surgeons to operate on her more than a dozen times?

How was it possible for a man wearing a straitjacket to commit suicide within a locked psychiatric ward while in the company of a well-trained guard?

Though these and the other stories in this volume read like fiction, each is true.

Former practicing psychiatrist Mark Rubinstein opens the door and takes readers deep into the world of mental illness. From the chaos of a psychiatric emergency room to the bowels of a maximum security prison, the stories range from bizarre to poignant and the people from noble to callously uncaring.

Bedlam's Door depicts the challenges mental illness poses for patients, their families, health-care professionals, and our society. More importantly, it demystifies the subject while offering real hope for the future. It illustrates that no matter how strange some behavior may seem, mental illness can be understood, if attention is paid. And, like the case histories compiled by Dr. Oliver Sacks in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, it shows that though every person's life story is unique, we are all more alike than different and are linked by the richness of our shared human experience.
Country USA
Manufacturer Thunder Lake Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-08-15
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Thunder Lake Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-08-15
Format	Kindle eBook

Bedlam's Door: True Tales of Madness and Hope

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