![]() Most "inmates", she says, are without medical insurance, are psychotic rather than "depressed", and claim to be the victims of childhood abuse or life on the streets. Vincent's bravery – or is it foolhardiness – takes her first to a public-sector institution called Meriwether, whose name she feels belies its misery and bleakness. What she found was shocking, if not surprising.įew things can be more terrifying than surrendering your freedom by voluntarily entering a psychiatric hospital. ![]() Her time in the psych ward occasioned a second bout of "immersion journalism" and this, her second book, about her experiences. It also saw her locked up in a psychiatric ward by her own volition, after a nervous breakdown. ![]() An American journalist, Norah Vincent made her name with her 2006 account of the year she spent living as a man, a project requiring her complete "immersion" in the experience. ![]()
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