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Susan Sheehan, Is There No Place on Earth for Me? In an amazing work of journalism, Sheehan chronicles the story of "Sylvia Frumkin," a highly intelligent young woman who become a schizophrenic in her late teens and spent most of the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. Sheehan followed "Sylvia" for almost a year talking with and observing her, listening to her monologues, sitting in on medical consultations, and even for a period slept in the bed next to her in a mental hospital. "Tenacious, observant, and unsentimental," said Newsweek in a review of her work. Her lack of emotion, however, made the story almost clinical and the aura of detachment it presented made it difficult to plough through the heavy prose. |
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