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Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry Hardcover – 1968

by Alfred M. & Kaplan, Harold I. (born 1927), eds Freedman (Author)

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Publisher: Baltimore 1968.; 1st Edition, 2nd printing edition (1968)
ASIN: B000MA881Q
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,633,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 23 people found the following review helpful

Fascinating but wordy and pretentious

By Marino J. Martinez on March 19, 2002

Format: Paperback

I read this book primarily for some insights into the excesses of psychiatry, and found much of that. I was quite surprised how strongly I identified with some of her feelings. Though I have have never had problems of the sort Kate had (has?), I am one of the many who have experienced clinical depression and been treated for it. As I read her book, I noticed how even this minor problem carries a lifetime of suspicion from others. As I go through life, physicians and relatives are quite ready and willing to jump on ordinary feelings as "evidence" that it is happening again, and maybe there is more to it. How oddly must one behave to start the spiral down to the point of something like Kate's experience happening?
Though I felt that Kate really should have known better than to do some of what she did, knowing that others were likely to use them excuses to have her committed, I still felt deeply her fear and helplessness. I was especially disgusted by the attitude of the shrink who failed to get her hauled away in the Bowry only through Kate's quick thinking.
The minuses of this book for me were the many times the she goes into descriptions of artists and other creative types in such exalted terms. Kate left little doubt that, to her, anyone who does other things with their lives are empty shells who rely on the chosen ones (such as herself) to be able to see the world as it truly is. This sort of elitism (how many times does she tell us she is a professor and published writer) and condescension is sickening in someone who spends so much of her life trying to right great wrongs of society.

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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful

The Loony Bin Trip

By Tanja M. Laden on April 20, 2001

Format: Paperback

Written between 1982 and 1985, The Loony-Bin Trip is overwhelmingly an effort to revert common notions of depression so that, like "grief," it may be allowed to enter the popular vocabulary. Millet achieves her foremost intent through her undeniably exquisite prose supplanted by already-changing attitudes toward depression among the public. However, The Loony Bin Trip is much more than a diatribe against prevailing stigmas of depression - it is a tender account of a talented, intelligent women's relentless desire to be accepted and understood by her contemporaries. Traumatic accounts and vivid self-reflection can occasionally prompt the most neutral reader into turmoil, thus rendering The Loony Bin Trip a cross-reference somewhere between memoir and horror. Her gut wrenching appeals for sympathy may provoke anger in some readers, reinforcing her real-life role as that of a "crazy" woman, but ultimately, her wealth of writings prove her to be a functional, if not creatively contributing, member of society. Reading Kate Millet's The Loony Bin Trip is a trip in itself. (Review written for Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal," a publication of the Claremont Colleges.

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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful

The Looney Bin is a fast & fascinating book.

By A Customer on November 28, 1998

Format: Hardcover

The Looney Bin By Kate Millett shares with us her experiences, ranging from dispair, to terror, and finally inner peace, after being diagnosed Manic Depressive. The book is a strong indictment against the treatment of the mentally ill here and abroad.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

A brilliant book

By Pamela Jane on January 23, 2013

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This is an amazing book; brilliant, rich and riveting. I read "Sexual Politics" in 1970, but as an author and someone who is writing a memoir herself, I was delighted and dazzled by "The Looney Bin Trip."

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful

Challenging journey

By Gina Marie on September 15, 2009

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Kate Millets "The Loony-Bin Trip" is her account of going off lithium to try and see if she can cure herself of her illness or to get a different pespective of her illness that hasn't been formed by those around her. Initially I can see why she did it. Its difficult to reconcile a new experience such as the mood swings people with bipolar experience, the abrupt experience of a forced hospitilization and the change in identity all this brings about. One can see why she would want to attempt to clean ones palate from such extreme experiences as that in order to try and reconnect with herself. During the book Kate Millet trys to reconcile being bipolar with a sense of dignity at a time in which the mental health industry saw this as impossible. At times you find yourself rooting for her escape from an Irish mental institution that she was tricked into attending and at other times you sense a bit of denial of her condition. From reading her account you also become shocked with the amount of insensitivity she is treated with. Her account is of course a biased one so the reader cant really be sure that what theyre getting is the most objective one. Contrasting views sometimes seep through when for example you read a note given to her by a women named Kim, who is staying with her on her farm. She maintains a denial of her condition until the end in which she falls into a deep depression and has to own up to it. She resumes her lithium and other anti-depressants and works her way out of it. Throughout the book, the reader is acquanted with her creative ideas for her farm and her commune of artist women and the various adventures this brings about.

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Looney bin excess

I found the book a bit tedious and self-indulgent, as I hacked my way through miles of excess verbiage. I would not recommend it.

Published 14 months ago by Amazon Customer

Fabulous and Absorbing Book

Kate Millet is an underrated genius of the 20th century. She's a brilliant writer and has remarkable insight into her condition.

Published 20 months ago by Vincent

Best memoir on Bipolar Disorder that I have read

This book is by far the best memoir on Bipolar Disorder that I have read. And I have read about 10 of them. Ms. Millet's writing is beautiful, vivid, brutally honest, and bold. Read more

Published on September 3, 2012 by Gary Halperin

A great book I disagreed with

As a person with manic depression, I can identify with some of the things Kate Millett had to say. However, I found her attitude about mental illness rather annoying. Read more

Published on November 14, 2004 by Twilly

honest memories and knowledge

i liked the part where she came back to NYC and lost her way and fell into the illness everyone, almost, had said she'd had and she was now 'mad' , but still she knew she wasn't... Read more

Published on August 29, 1997