Counting the Rivers, 9781862544529
Paperback
Losing her mind, she fights a system denying her humanity.

Counting the Rivers

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    16 July 2018

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Summary

Madeleine Roberts fears that she is losing her mind, but her search for treatment leads her into mortal danger. She decides to enter a psychiatric institution, where she is drugged and disoriented by electroconvulsive treatment until her will to live is almost broken.

In Counting the Rivers Pearlie McNeill draws on her experiences as a patient in several psychiatric hospitals, along with chilling extracts from her own medical file, to create a gripping account of one woman’s …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781862544529
ISBN-10:1862544522
Author:Pearlie McNeill
Publisher:Wakefield Press
Imprint:Wakefield Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:16 July 2018
Weight:260g
Dimensions:210mm x 135mm

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