Nobody Home Author:Jennifer Lloyd Paul Judith Stoner is a woman who has lost faith in herself after years o being haunted by her husband's continuing unfaithfulness. When she voluntarily enters a private psychiatric hospital she is unable to talk or to make decisions. A doctor asks her to describe herself and she writes: "Efficient, Very Efficient". — This is not the grim hospital set... more »ting of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but rather a sort of dorm with friendly nurses who act like house mothers. And Judith, although deeply depresses at first, i not a person without resources.
thee is a profound sense of community among the patients, who are sometimes bizarre in their behavior, but consistently loving, supportive, and delightfully humorous in spite of their own overwhelming problems. In this environment Judith is led to risk herself, to cultivate her own latent creative abilities, to paint and to write.
She and another patient fall in love and have a very sensual and touching love affair. When they first meet he tells her,"Treasure your mistakes, dear. Anybody can be perfect."
This is Judith's diary, that rare account told from the inside; a journal of growth and recovery.« less
ISBN-13: 9780393087703 ISBN-10: 0393087700 Pages:247 Edition:1st ed Rating: