Asylum (William Seabrook).epub

Author(s): William Seabrook
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date: 2015-09-16 Format: epub Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 0486798100
Pages: 288 OCR: Quality: ISBN13: 9780486798103

This dramatic memoir recounts an eight-month stay at a Westchester mental hospital in the early 1930s. William Seabrook, a renowned journalist and explorer, voluntarily committed himself to an asylum for treatment of acute alcoholism. His sincere, self-critical appraisal of his experiences offers a highly interesting look at addiction and treatment in the days before Alcoholics Anonymous and other modern programs.