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The poignant memoir of Judith A. Fisher, who, at age seventeen, experienced appalling mistreatment-- including electroshock treatments and an attempted rape-- in a mental hospital, but survived and went on to become a healthy adult and a successful businesswoman, wife, and mother.--

subjects: Ex-mental patients,  Electroconvulsive therapy for teenagers,  Corrupt practices,  Psychiatric hospitals,  Shock therapy,  Self-realization,  Patients,  Treatment,  Self-actualization (Psychology),  Biography,  Mentally ill children

People: Judith A. Fisher (1944-)

Places: United States,  New York (State)