This book is grounded in W. Strawn Douglas' personal battle with mental illness and his experiences with it at the mental institution where he's lived for almost three decades. Different portions of it were created in different times, with Douglas in a variety of different mindsets, and it concerns itself mainly with the hoops that the government wants people who are mentally ill to jump through in all too often vain hopes of regaining their freedom. Some of the hoops are admittedly linked to reasonable goals and ideals. Unfortunately, too many others only serve the whims of our captors, serving the traditions of abuse in the oxymoron of "forced care."
- ISBN10 1771836717
- ISBN13 9781771836715
- Publish Date 1 May 2021
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Guernica Editions,Canada
- Edition Second Edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 270
- Language English