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From Out of a Dark Corner

From Out of a Dark Corner

Roth, Evelyn

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Psychology

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 0595487084
ISBN13: 9780595487080
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: Mar 7 2008
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From Out of a Dark Corner is a true story of the work I did in a halfway house for young people with major mental illness. I organized a musical group there and met a man with severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, (O.C.D), who had a beautiful voice and was living in the facility. He had been in and out of state hospitals for over twenty years, taking medication for his disorder, which caused him to act very drugged. He was erroneously diagnosed with schizophrenia from several psychiatrists over the years and was destined to live a terrible life, never knowing what living on the outside would be like. I had just graduated Florida International University with a degree in psychology and applied whatever knowledge I had about mental illness in order to help this man. At the time I was married to another man but later divorced him because I fell in love with Marty. Also, after reading Dr. Leonard Cammer's book, Freedom from Compulsion I diagnosed Marty's problem correctly and spent years helping him with his repetitive rituals and excessive hand washing. I was also able to help him relive his childhood with his mentally sick mother until he got much better. I chose the title From Out of a Dark Corner because Marty spent day after day sitting in his bedroom, in a corner, not doing much of anything except attending the halfway house which was no help to him.

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