About this book
In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor's world contracted around her illness. Eventually, she was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institutions, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in London.
- Mental health
- Mentally ill women
- London (England)
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Institutional care
- Mental illness
- Friern Hospital
- Mentally ill, care
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