This vintage 1972 first American edition of Mary Barnes: Two Accounts of a Journey Through Madness is a book co-authored by Mary Barnes and her psychiatrist, Joseph H. Berke, detailing her 30-year struggle with schizophrenia and her recovery through unconventional therapy at R.D. Laing's Kingsley Hall. The book presents two perspectives: Barnes's subjective experience of madness and healing, and Berke's clinical view, showing her emergence as a renowned painter through a therapeutic process that avoided medication. This copy is in used vintage condition with some creasing and small tears to the edges of the dust jacket. The original owner's stamp is on the front end page and out edge of the pages on both top and bottom. There are no torn or marked inner pages and excellent overall color quality.
Hardcover, 351 pages
5.75 x 8.25 inches
This vintage 1972 first American edition of Mary Barnes: Two Accounts of a Journey Through Madness is a book co-authored by Mary Barnes and her psychiatrist, Joseph H. Berke, detailing her 30-year struggle with schizophrenia and her recovery through unconventional therapy at R.D. Laing's Kingsley Hall. The book presents two perspectives: Barnes's subjective experience of madness and healing, and Berke's clinical view, showing her emergence as a renowned painter through a therapeutic process that avoided medication. This copy is in used vintage condition with some creasing and small tears to the edges of the dust jacket. The original owner's stamp is on the front end page and out edge of the pages on both top and bottom. There are no torn or marked inner pages and excellent overall color quality.
Hardcover, 351 pages
5.75 x 8.25 inches
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