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What helps me if I go mad? How can I find trustworthy help for a
relative or a friend in need? How can I protect myself from
coercive treatment? As a family member or friend, how can I help?
What should I do if I can no longer bear to work in the mental
health field? What are the alternatives to psychiatry? How can I
get involved in creating alternatives? Assuming psychiatry would be
abolished, what do you propose instead?Those are some of the
questions, which are addressed by the 61 authors-(ex-)users and
survivors of psychiatry, medical practitioners, therapists,
lawyers, social scientists, psychiatrists and relatives from all
continents.
"The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the
human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so
often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait,
too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum--the sort of community in
which, for better and for worse, hundreds of thousands of people
lived out their lives. Darby Penney and Peter Stastny's careful
historical (almost archaeological) and biographical reconstructions
give us unique insight into these lives which would otherwise be
lost and, indeed, unimaginable to the rest of us." --Oliver Sacks
"Fascinating...The haunting thing about the suitcase owners is that
it's so easy to identify with them." --Newsweek When Willard State
Hospital closed its doors in 1995, after operating as one of New
York State's largest mental institutions for over 120 years, a
forgotten attic filled with suitcases belonging to former patients
was discovered. Using the possessions found in these suitcases
along with institutional records and doctors' notes from patient
sessions, Darby Penney, a leading advocate of patients' rights, and
Peter Stastny, a psychiatrist and documentary filmmaker, were able
to reconstruct the lives of ten patients who resided at Willard
during the first half of the twentieth century. The Lives They Left
Behind tells their story. In addition to these human portraits, the
book contains over 100 photographs as well as valuable historical
background on how this state-funded institution operated. As it
restores the humanity of the individuals it so poignantly evokes,
The Lives They Left Behind reveals the vast historical inadequacies
of a psychiatric system that has yet to heal itself.
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