![]() Eye opening, emotionally wrenching, and at times very funny, Voluntary Madness is a riveting work that exposes the state of mental healthcare in America from the inside out. Vincent applies brilliant insight as she exposes her personal struggle with depression and explores the range of people, caregivers, and methodologies that guide these strange, often scary, and bizarre environments. Vincent's journey takes her from a big city hospital to a facility in the Midwest and finally to an upscale retreat down south, as she analyzes the impact of institutionalization on the unwell, the tyranny of drugs-as-treatment, and the dysfunctional dynamic between caregivers and patients. She decided to get healthy and to study the effect of treatment on the depressed and insane "in the bin," as she calls it. Out of this raw and overwhelming experience came the idea for her next book. ![]() On the advice of her psychologist she committed herself to a mental institution. At the conclusion of her celebrated first book- Self-Made Man, in which she soent eighteen months disguised as a man-Norah Vincent found herself emotionally drained. ![]() Suffering from severe depression after her eighteen months living disguised as a man, Vincent felt she was a danger to herself. Revelatory, deeply personal, and utterly relevant, Voluntary Madness is a controversial work that unveils the state of mental healthcare in the United States from the inside out. Norah Vincent's New York Times bestselling book, Self-Made Man, ended on a harrowing note. ![]()
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