Seclusion - Couverture rigide

Breakstone, Morris

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1403352313 ISBN 13 : 9781403352316

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2002

Synopsis

Restrained in a straight jacket, Professor Sloane lies on the floor of a seclusion room, scheduled for the lobotomy, he fears will destroy his ability to think and care for those he loves.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

During World War II, Morris Breakstone served with the First Special Service Force, an elite American-Canadian brigade, the forerunner of U.S. Special Forces, known as the Green Berets.His military background serves, he believes, to keep within plausible bounds, the surprising twists and reversals of Company Punishment, his previous novel of World War II.Under the GI Bill he attended the City College of New York, majoring in psychology and earning a Master's degree.He worked as an intern, an attendant, and a psychologist in mental hospitals like the one depicted in his novel, Seclusion.He had essays accepted for publication in Mental Health, Michigan College Personnel Association Journal, and Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry. His research exposed patient abuse and racism against African American patients at a mental hospital.Witnessed by newspapers and radio reporters at the Adrian YMCA, he performed 709 pushups in thirty-four minutes at the age of seventy - an achievement cited in Ripley's Believe It or Not and for which he got a standing ovation at the Michigan Senate.He has a son and daughter in Ann Arbor.Morris Breakstone lives in Adrian, Michigan with his wife, Angela, a special education teacher. He relies very much on her help. So do their two cats.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Confined to a mental hospital, Professor Sloane helps Wakeman, a young attendant, save a boy who hanged himself in a seclusion room. Sloane then tells Wakeman of his concern that his daughter, Valery, a student nurse, will take her psychiatric training where he's a patient. To reassure him, Wakeman meets with Valery. She has tried to visit her beloved father - blocked by Dr. Beaumont, who's chosen Sloane for a lobotomy, opposed by Dr. Wainwright, the clinical director and Dr. Clement, the superintendent, who favor less intrusive and irrevocable therapies.Clement has suffered a paralyzing stroke. He's treated in a service for personnel ruled by Beaumont, who fails to note that his superintendent can blink at will, which Wakeman discovers and enables Clement to communicate. Wakeman repeats the alphabet, so Clement can blink on the letters forming words that tell Wainwright to fire Beaumont. But Wainwright does not heed the order. He's addicted to Demoral for his war-wounded leg for which he's treated by his former classmate, Beaumont.Frustrated, Clement dies of another stroke. Now there's nobody in power to save Sloane from the brain surgery he fears will impair his thinking and caring for others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1403352313
• ISBN 13: 9781403352316
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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