A01=Marie Balter
A01=Richard Katz
Author_Marie Balter
Author_Richard Katz
Category=DNBA
Category=VFJ
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Product details
- ISBN 9780201608168
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 1992
- Publisher: Hachette Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Marie Balter's courageous story of hope and healing has inspired millions around the country. After spending the first twenty years of her adult life in a mental hospital, she gradually emerged from the terror of the back wards, eventually to attend graduate school at Harvard University and become a leading champion for the mentally ill.
Marie Balter, M.Ed. is a writer, lecturer, and advocate for the mentally ill. She is the winner of America's Award, the ordinary person's Medal of honour." Richard Katz, Ph.D. clinical psychologist and anthropologist, is the author of Boiling Energy: Community Healing among the Kalahari Kung. He teaches full time at Saskatchewan Indian Federated College in Canada, and at Harvard Medical School.
