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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
My Darling Derry: Letter-poems about Derek Richter founder of The Mental Health Foundation

My Darling Derry: Letter-poems about Derek Richter founder of The Mental Health Foundation

Festing, Sally

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 191104835X
ISBN13: 9781911048350
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jan 1 2019
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In response to mental health issues experienced by his two siblings, my father Derek Richter became a noted neuro-psychiatrist and founder of the Mental Health Research Fund (now Foundation). For more than sixty years, the Foundation has funded pioneering research and challenged the status of mental health in the UK. After his death, I inherited hundreds of family letters, diaries and medical notes that are the source of my poems. They reveal how his personal life affected his dedication to discover the cause and treatment of mental illness, and how this became the driving force of his life.

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