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Mary Barnes: Two Accounts of a Journey Through Madness
Mary Barnes Two Accounts of a Journey Through Madness Author:Mary Barnes, Joseph Berke In 1966, Mary Barnes was a schizophrenic with no hope of relief from her condition, and Joseph Berke was a young doctor in rebellion against the restrictions of the American psychiatric profession. When Berke moved to England to work with the radical psychologist R. D. Laing, he met Mary, a patient at Laing's experimental therapeutic community ... more »at Kingsley Hall. This account of their different perspectives on Mary's illness and treatment is both a critique of conventional approaches to therapy, and the story of a remarkable friendship.This new edition of a classic of psychotherapy, told in the patient's and the therapist's words, is now expanded to include new epilogues from both authors.« less