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Balter's courageous story of hope and healing has inspired millions around the country. After spending the first twenty years of her adult life in a mental hospital, she gradually emerged from the terror of the back wards, eventually to attend graduate school at Harvard University and become a... read more

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It's late afternoon and I'm sitting in the small kitchen off the open ward at Sutton State Hospital where I'm a mental patient.

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  1. Richard Katz (Author)
  2. Marie Balter (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: De Capo Press
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Publication Date: June 21, 1992
ISBN: 0201608162
Page Count: 240

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