The Ghost Garden

preview-18
  • The Ghost Garden Book Detail

  • Author : Susan Doherty
  • Release Date : 2020-09-08
  • Publisher : Vintage Canada
  • Genre : Psychology
  • Pages : 386
  • ISBN 13 : 0735276528
  • File Size : 34,34 MB

The Ghost Garden by Susan Doherty PDF Summary

Book Description: "A compelling act of connection, leavened with humour, clear-eyed yet packed with hope." —Ann-Marie MacDonald A rare work of narrative non-fiction that illuminates a world most of us try not to see: the daily lives of the severely mentally ill, who are medicated, marginalized, locked away and shunned. Susan Doherty's groundbreaking book brings us a population of lost souls, ill-served by society, feared, shunted from locked wards to rooming houses to the streets to jail and back again. For the past 10 years, many who have cycled in and out of the locked wards of the Douglas Institute in Montreal found a friend in Susan, who volunteers on the wards and then accompanies her friends out into the world. With their full cooperation, she brings us intimate stories that challenge our views of people with mental illness. Through "Caroline Evans," a woman in her early sixties whom Susan has known since she was a bright, sunny school girl, we experience living with schizophrenia, such as when Caroline was convinced she could save her roommate from the devil by pouring boiling water into her ear... She has been through it all, including having to navigate an indifferent justice system that is incapable of serving the severely ill. Susan interleaves Caroline's story with vignettes about her other friends—stories that reveal their hopes, circumstances, personalities, humanity. Susan found that if she can hang in through the first 10-15 minutes of every coffee date with someone in the grip of psychosis, true communication results. Their "madness" is not otherworldly: instead it tells us something about how they're surviving their lives and what they've been through. The Ghost Garden carries a cargo of compassion and empathy that motivates us to re-examine our understanding of justice, society and humanity.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Ghost Garden books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Ghost Garden

The Ghost Garden

File Size : 61,61 MB
Total View : 9566 Views
DOWNLOAD

"A compelling act of connection, leavened with humour, clear-eyed yet packed with hope." —Ann-Marie MacDonald A rare work of narrative non-fiction that illumi

A Secret Music

A Secret Music

File Size : 64,64 MB
Total View : 7024 Views
DOWNLOAD

Lawrence knows in every fiber of his soul that he was meant to be a famous concert pianist, but the road to his pinnacle of success--performance on the stage at

The Equivalents

The Equivalents

File Size : 71,71 MB
Total View : 586 Views
DOWNLOAD

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD In 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study

Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued

Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued

File Size : 17,17 MB
Total View : 8758 Views
DOWNLOAD

We've all been there. The words just won't come out right, or at all. We get halfway into a creative project and then unexpectedly run out of steam. We get nerv

Flash Count Diary

Flash Count Diary

File Size : 80,80 MB
Total View : 3030 Views
DOWNLOAD

“Many days I believe menopause is the new (if long overdue) frontier for the most compelling and necessary philosophy; Darcey Steinke is already there, blazin