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"Sailing Directions" is a novelized memoir of grief and recovery
set aboard a luxurious sailing yacht traveling the Greek Islands,
based on the personal experience of the author. Is it possible that
taking a job as cook on a luxurious sailing yacht, and getting away
from her own small town can help Nina get over the death of her
beloved husband, Jake? Her friend Alex thinks so, and convinces her
to come to Greece where he's captain of Desiree, a one hundred foot
beauty owned by a ruthless American financier known to his crew as
the Boss. It's a small world, with intense dynamics. The Boss is
demanding, and prone to tantrums. Seasickness, heat, exhaustion and
grief threaten to defeat Nina, and ultimately, the Boss's
willfulness nearly destroys his lovely toy and puts them all in
danger. However, Nina finds a stock of resilience, humor, and even
romance that lightens her darkest moments. The settings are
wonderfully and carefully researched and detailed. Sailing under
the stars, stormy seas, gourmet meals, visits to remote harbors and
ancient sites; the reader is in for some serious vicarious pleasure
while at the same time relating to the timeless struggle of
recovery from loss.
An era has come and gone in the history of he care and treatment of
the mentally ill, the Aslyum era. Close to two centuries ago the
first institutions were erected. They proliferated throughout the
Western world holding ever-increasing numbers of those deemed to be
insane. They reached their limit of expansion in the 1950s and
since that time have gradually diminished until they all but
disappeared at the end of the 20th century. The early chapters of
this book discuss the defining boundaries of psychiatric histories
and the need for an historical understanding to be included in the
education of mental health professionals. They are followed by a
brief overview of the mental illnesses and the various theories
that attempt to explain the growth of asylums. The ]traditional
path] of psychiatric histories is visited as I look at the evidence
of madness in the Ancient World through until the period defined as
]Modern Psychiatry] from the Enlightenment and the advent of moral
treatment until recent times. Later chapters trace the development
of the large institutions for the insane drawing on records of the
then Lunacy Department and later Department of Mental Hygiene.
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