{"product_id":"life-inside-2","title":"Life Inside","description":"The patient is an ascetically pretty 15½-year-old white female. She is intelligent, fearful, extremely anxious, and depressed. Her rage is poorly controlled and inappropriately expressed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDiagnostic Impression: Program for social recovery in a supportive and structured environment appears favorable.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLife Inside\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 1967, three months before her sixteenth birthday, Mindy Lewis was sent to a state psychiatric hospital by court order. She had been skipping school, smoking pot, and listening to too much Dylan. Her mother, at a loss for what else to do, decided that Mindy remain in state custody until she turned eighteen and became a legal, law-abiding, \"healthy\" adult. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLife Inside\u003c\/i\u003e is Mindy's story about her coming-of-age during those tumultuous years. In honest, unflinching prose, she paints a richly textured portrait of her stay on a psychiatric ward -- the close bonds and rivalries among adolescent patients, the politics and routines of institutional life, the extensive use of medication, and the prevalence of life-altering misdiagnoses. But this memoir also takes readers on a journey of recovery as Lewis describes her emergence into adulthood and her struggle to transcend the stigma of institutionalization. Bracingly told, and often terrifying in its truths,\u003ci\u003e Life Inside\u003c\/i\u003e is a life-affirming memoir that informs as it inspires.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57296789700952,"sku":"9780743411509","price":2.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780743411509.jpg?v=1778831149","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/life-inside-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}