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Inside the mental : silence, stigma, psychiatry, and LSD

Parley, Kay, author

Overview

\"Before she became a psychiatric nurse at 'The Mental' in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met. Part memoir, part history, and beautifully written, [this book] offers an episodic journey into the stigma, horror, and redemption that she found within the institution's walls. Now in her nineties, Parley looks back at the emerging use of group therapy, the advent of patients' rights, evolving ethics in psychiatry, and the amazing cast of characters she met there. She also reveals her role in groundbreaking experiments with LSD, pioneered by the world's leading researchers at 'The Mental' to treat addiction and mental illness. Now an author and journalist with a weekly syndicated column, Kay Parley was once a patient and psychiatric nurse at the Weyburn Mental Hospital in Saskatchewan. She had her first breakdown while working at the CBC in Toronto.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Subject: Parley, Kay Health. / Parley, Kay Santâe. / Weyburn Mental Hospital History. / Weyburn Mental Hospital Histoire. / Psychiatry Saskatchewan History. / LSD (Drug) Therapeutic use Saskatchewan History. / Psychiatric nurses Saskatchewan Biography. / Mentally ill Biography. / Psychotherapy patients Saskatchewan Biography. / Psychiatrie Saskatchewan Histoire. / LSD (Drogue) Emploi en thâerapeutique Saskatchewan Histoire. / Infirmiلeres psychiatriques Saskatchewan Biographies. / Patients en psychothâerapie Saskatchewan Biographies.
• ISBN: 9780889774117, 0889774110

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
RC448.S33 W49 2016	1	BOOK	GENERAL