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Author Parley, Kay, author

Title Inside the mental : silence, stigma, psychiatry, and LSD / Kay Parley
Published Regina, SK, Canada : University of Regina Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource
Series The Regina collection
Regina collection.
Summary "Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met. Part memoir, part history, and beautifully written, Inside The Mental offers an episodic journey into the stigma, horror, and redemption that she found within the institution's walls. Now in her nineties, Parley looks back at the emerging use of group therapy, the advent of patients' rights, evolving ethics in psychiatry, and the amazing cast of characters she met there. She also reveals her role in groundbreaking experiments with LSD, pioneered by the world's leading researchers at "The Mental" to treat addiction and mental illness. Now an author and journalist with a weekly syndicated column, Kay Parley was once a patient and psychiatric nurse at the Weyburn Mental Hospital in Saskatchewan. She had her first breakdown while working at the CBC in Toronto."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Parts of this work were included in Lady with a lantern
Subject Parley, Kay -- Health
SUBJECT Parley, Kay
Subject Weyburn Mental Hospital -- History
SUBJECT Saskatchewan Hospital (Weyburn, Sask.)
Subject Psychiatry -- Saskatchewan -- History
LSD (Drug) -- Therapeutic use -- Saskatchewan -- History
Psychiatric nurses -- Saskatchewan -- Biography
Psychotherapy patients -- Saskatchewan -- Biography
LSD (Drug)
Psychotherapy.
Mentally ill women.
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
Mentally Ill Persons
Psychotherapy
History, 20th Century
mentally ill.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
Psychotherapy
LSD (Drug)
Health
LSD (Drug) -- Therapeutic use
Psychiatric nurses
Psychiatry
Psychotherapy patients
SUBJECT Saskatchewan
Subject Saskatchewan
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780889774131
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