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“Take Your Pill Dear”: Kate Millett and Psychiatry's Dark Side

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Thomas Steinbuch
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Abstract

Kate Miliett's book, The Loony-Bin Trip, is an extraordinary account of her personal experience with involuntary psychiatric commitment. The drama of her conflict with professional psychiatry is so tense, so enraging, that one is likely to find oneself having to set the book aside from time to time just to calm down.

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REVIEW ESSAY
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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Winter 1993 , pp. 197 - 204
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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