![]() ![]() ![]() Treatments ranged from comforting and stabilizing to abusive and perfunctory. Luke’s, a small Catholic hospital “in the middle of the plains” and a private rehab facility called Mobius, specializing in “process therapy.” She rates and compares them, admitting from the start that she is deeply suspicious of the way the medical profession handles mental illness, the causes and mechanisms of which remain little understood. ![]() Having battled periods of depression throughout her life, and being well-acquainted with the use of medications such as Lamictal and Prozac, the author had no trouble getting admitted for an average two-week stay as a patient in the three institutions: Meriwether, a public Bedlam in the Northeast St. As part of her ongoing work as an “immersion journalist” ( Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised as a Man, 2006, etc.), Vincent checked into three different mental institutions she found the experience both numbing and life-changing. ![]()
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