Table of Contents
About the Editor; Chapter 1 Prologue, Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Part 1 Hospitals; Chapter 2 From The Loony-Bin Trip, Kate Millett; Chapter 3 Life Inside, Mindy Lewis; Chapter 4 Ode to Carrie White, Elayne Clift; Chapter 5 From The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath; Chapter 6 For Love Nor Money, Anonymous; Chapter 7 Since You Asked, Here Is Why, Amy Stuber; Chapter 8 Death Interrupted, Barbara Shooltz Kendzierski; Chapter 9 Outstanding Charges, Barbara Shooltz Kendzierski; Chapter 10 The Setup, Mary Hower; Chapter 11 The Scream, J. Lisa Richesson; Chapter 12 Hospital, Anne Myra Benjamin; Chapter 13 Safe Places, Catherine Ann Fabio; Chapter 14 The Waiting Room, Kathleen M. Kelley; Chapter 15 Home Sweet Nuthouse, Sara Kirschenbaum; Chapter 16 i remember, Hadiyah Carlyle; Chapter 17 Bathing in the Bin, Jo Patti; Chapter 18 Outtakes, Elayne Clift; Chapter 19 You, Doctor Martin, Anne Sexton; Part 2 Therapy; Chapter 20 From Welcome to My Country, Lauren Slater; Chapter 21 The Caregivers’Dance, Catherine Spensley; Chapter 22 The Psychoanalyst’s Daughter: A Memoir, Karen Wunsch; Chapter 23 Vested Interests, Geraldine A. J. Sanford; Chapter 24 Putdown, Geraldine A. J. Sanford; Chapter 25 Is She Really Listening?, Anna Mills; Chapter 26 We Go a Little Over the Hour, Kathleen M. Kelley; Chapter 27 Suite 506, Barbara Shooltz Kendzierski; Chapter 28 Escaping the Cabin, Adrienne Ross; Chapter 29 Therapy, Celia Jeffries; Chapter 30 Preview, Nancy A. McMichael; Chapter 31 From Undercurrents, Martha Manning; Chapter 32 It’s Going to Be a Great Daypro, Megeen R. Mulholland; Chapter 33 Side Effects May Include:, Megeen R. Mulholland; Chapter 34 Transference, Beth Schorr Jaffe; Chapter 35 Consult, Mary Damon Peltier; Chapter 36 Why Have You Come to My Office Today? Why Have You Come to the Hospital?, Mary Damon Peltier; Chapter 37 My Last Freudian, Kake Huck; Chapter 38 Fragments, Kake Huck; Chapter 39 Misinterpreting Body, Cathleen Calbert; Chapter 40 Dr. Abe’s Psychotherapy, Shira Dentz; Chapter 41 Going Out, Catherine Turnbull; Chapter 42 Therapy Session, Sharon Carter; Chapter 43 Just One Question Doctor—About My Termination, Beth Schorr Jaffe; Chapter 44 The Story of My Therapy, Sondra Zeidenstein; Part 3 Hope; Chapter 45 Mrs. Gould, Mindy Lewis; Chapter 46 Woman Knows It’s Time to Quit Therapy, Barbara Schmitz; Chapter 47 Simple Prayer, Anonymous; Chapter 48 Clarity, Janet Ruth Heller; Chapter 49 Saying Goodbye, Pamela Malone; Chapter 50 Keeping Our Distance, Lee Kottner; Chapter 51 Carol, Carol Barrett; Chapter 52 Reflections for a Psychiatric Resident, Barbara Shooltz Kendzierski; Chapter 53 When Therapy Works, Maryhelen Snyder; Chapter 54 Afterword, Wanda K. Mohr;
