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A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography

A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography

Beers, Clifford Whittingham
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Hardcover

Series: Mint Editions (Visibility for Disability, Health and Wellness)

Biographies GeneralMental Health

Publisher Price: $22.99

ISBN13: 9798888970942
Publisher: Mint Editions
Published: Jun 6 2023
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In 1905, after suffering a relapse and spending a few months at The Hartford Retreat, Clifford Whittingham Beers elected to write a book about his experiences living with mental illness and being subject to cruel treatment and physical abuse while being institutionalized.

Titled, A Mind That Found Itself, the 1908 autobiography told the story of a young man who had suffered a life full of personal tragedy, leading to feelings of intense anxiety, paranoia and depression. Slowly being engulfed by intrusive thoughts and hallucinations, Beers found himself struggling with suicidal ideation and committment by his well-intentioned family to a series of mental health institutions, each one seemingly worse than the last.

Unique in its presentation of both self-awareness and the difficult reality of working towards recovery; the book paved the way for the American mental hygiene movement and removed the stigma of mental illness among the general public.

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