The Snake Pit
A 75th anniversary edition of the landmark novel that forever changed the way we think about mental illness and its treatmentDo you hear voices? Is he mad? Virginia Stuart Cunningham, a journalist and novelist with a wicked sense of humor, is sitting on a park bench waiting for h… Celý popis ↓
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The Snake Pit
A 75th anniversary edition of the landmark novel that forever changed the way we think about mental illness and its treatmentDo you hear voices? Is he mad? Virginia Stuart Cunningham, a journalist and novelist with a wicked sense of humor, is sitting on a park bench waiting for her husband when an intrusive stranger begins to pester her with nonsensical questions.
So begins this brilliant literary exploration of mental illness, a novel that asks us to reconsider what counts as sanity in a crazy world.Suffering a breakdown in 1941, thirty-five-year-old novelist Mary Jane Ward was diagnosed, or perhaps misdiagnosed, with schizophrenia and committed to a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York. Or is she? From that horrific experience came this gripping story.Inspiration for the 1948 film starring Olivia de Havilland, The Snake Pit sparked
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