{"product_id":"life-inside-a-memoir-9780743411509","title":"Life Inside: A Memoir","description":"The patient is an ascetically pretty 151\/2-year-old white female. She is intelligent, fearful, extremely anxious, and depressed. Her rage is poorly controlled and inappropriately expressed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDiagnostic Impression: Program for social recovery in a supportive and structured environment appears favorable.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLife Inside\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 1967, three months before her sixteenth birthday, Mindy Lewis was sent to a state psychiatric hospital by court order. She had been skipping school, smoking pot, and listening to too much Dylan. Her mother, at a loss for what else to do, decided that Mindy remain in state custody until she turned eighteen and became a legal, law-abiding, healthy adult. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLife Inside\u003c\/i\u003e is Mindy's story about her coming-of-age during those tumultuous years. In honest, unflinching prose, she paints a richly textured portrait of her stay on a psychiatric ward -- the close bonds and rivalries among adolescent patients, the politics and routines of institutional life, the extensive use of medication, and the prevalence of life-altering misdiagnoses. But this memoir also takes readers on a journey of recovery as Lewis describes her emergence into adulthood and her struggle to transcend the stigma of institutionalization. Bracingly told, and often terrifying in its truths, \u003ci\u003e Life Inside\u003c\/i\u003e is a life-affirming memoir that informs as it inspires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Washington Square Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743411509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.32w x 0.97d","brand":"Mindy Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41309619781813,"sku":"9780743411509","price":19.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_768565fb-fcbc-4e14-8ba0-2c27fa5740cc.jpg?v=1635830598","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/life-inside-a-memoir-9780743411509","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}