A Place for Lost Souls
a psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair
$53.05
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2023
Summary
A Place for Lost Souls: Behind the Walls of a Mental Asylum
‘Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and open our hearts more.’
Belinda Black was just seventeen years old when she began working as a nursing assistant at the large and foreboding ‘madhouse’, as it was then known in her hometown in the north of England. Following in the footsteps of her mother, she spent a decade caring for patients with wide…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529429657 |
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| ISBN-10: | 152942965X |
| Author: | Belinda Black |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 160mm x 34mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Stories that range from heart-wrenching to shocking * Yorkshire Post *[A] moving memoir * Daily Express *
About The Author
Belinda Black
Belinda Black is a Registered Mental Health Nurse, and a non-executive director of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of health and social care in England. She began her nursing career in 1981, and over the following forty years has worked in two large secure hospitals, a regional secure unit, as a court liaison officer at a secure unit for mentally disordered offenders, as the CEO of a Sheffield-based social care charity, and with the National Institute For Health and Social Care Excellence (NICE) to develop national guidelines for the delivery of health and social care. Belinda lives in Huddersfield, and A Place for Lost Souls will be her first book.
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