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Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors

Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors

Paperback

Series: American Lives

Biographies GeneralMental Health

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 0803259751
ISBN13: 9780803259751
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Mar 1 2007
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.34 Depth: 8.45
Language: English
Day after day, night after night, desperate men come to sit in the black chair next to Charles Barber's desk in a basement office at Bellevue and tell of their travails, of prison and disease, of violence and the voices that plague them. Between the stories, amid the peeling paint, musty odor, and flickering fluorescent light of his office, Barber observes that this isn't really where he is supposed to be and reveals his privileged youth in contrast to his own nightmare of mental illness. By relating these troubled lives to his own, Barber illuminates some of the most disturbing and enduring truths of human nature.

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