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Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

By: Susan Sheehan
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith, Kate Reading
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This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize winning investigation of schizophrenia - now reissued with a new postscript - follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness.

"Sylvia Frumkin" was born in 1948 and began showing signs of schizophrenia in her teens. She spent the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. In 1978, reporter Susan Sheehan took an interest in her and, for more than two years, became immersed in her life: Talking with her, listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with doctors - even, for a period, sleeping in the bed next to her in a psychiatric center.

With Sheehan, we become witness to Sylvia's plight: Her psychotic episodes, the medical struggle to control her symptoms, and the overburdened hospitals that, more often than not, she was obliged to call home. The resulting book, first published in 1982, was hailed as an extraordinary achievement: Harrowing, humanizing, moving, and bitingly funny. Now, some two decades later, Is There No Place on Earth for Me continues to set the standard for accounts of mental illness.

©1982 Susan Sheehan; Foreword by Robert Coles (P)2014 Audible Inc. Medical Mental Health Professionals & Academics Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Schizophrenia & Psychotic Disorders Funny Schizophrenia Memoirs

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listened to this in 2 days flat. so interesting and detailed and really easy to follow

loved this so much

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I’m sorry couldn’t even listen to the audible, the narrator was so boring all one tone no excitement

Boring narrator

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As someone who experienced a brief spell on a mental health unit and for the past 7 years have been voluntarily working on mental health wards and who has made a good friend with a person who suffers from psychosis , I found this book so enthralling .
So true to life . I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand mental Olmsted from the patients side . Absolutely excellent . I enjoyed the narrator too.
PW London

Brilliant .. a real insight into mental illness

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This book is super boring and pretencious. i honestly dont remember when last time I have read such a boring book.

super boring and pretencious

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First audiobook I've not bothered to finish. Found it incredibly repetitive and boring - both the contents and the reading of them.

Boring.

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I didn't just struggle to finish, I'm struggling to continue! I'm a third of the way through chapter 3 and I'm giving up. The narrator's voice is more than soporific, her diction is exaggerated and affected and the story, though it hasn't even properly started yet, feels contrived . The 'background' is long winded, boring and not a little racist in undertone. I appreciate that times have changed and during the time in question people held different racial views, but this seems written not as someone telling a story of how it was back then but as if they are voicing their own preferred terms, and that doesn't sit well with me. All in all, a complete dud.

Tedious in the extreme

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