9 Highland Road Sane Living for the Mentally Ill

Name: 9 Highland Road Sane Living for the Mentally Ill
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ISBN: 9780679761600

ISBN-10: 0679761608

ISBN-13: 9780679761600

Edition: N/A

Authors: Michael Winerip

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Before Julie Callahan came to the house at 9 Highland Road in Glen Cove, New York, she had spent a good part of her young life in mental hospitals, her mental and emotional coherence nearly destroyed by a childhood of sexual abuse. Fred Grasso, a schizophrenic, had lived in a filthy single-room occupancy hotel. At 9 Highland Road they and their housemates were given a decent alternative to lives in institutions or in the streets. It was a place in which some even found the chance to get better. This perfectly observed and passionately imagined book takes us inside one of the supervised group homes that, in an age of shrinking state budgets and psychotropic drugs, have emerged as the…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/30/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.99" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English