The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

by Barbara Taylor

Book Overview

In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor's world contracted around her illness. Eventually, her struggles were severe enough to lead to her admission to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institution, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in North London.

The Last Asylum is Taylor's breathtakingly blunt and brave account of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022627392X
• ISBN13: 9780226273921
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.3"