Nobody's child /

Balter, Marie, 1930-

Nobody's child / Marie Balter & Richard Katz. - [Cambridge, Mass.] : Da Capo Press, c1991. - xxi, 203 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Reprint, with new pref. Originally published: Sing no sad songs. Massachusetts : Balter Institute, c1987. "A Merloyd Lawrence book."

A place of terror -- Ma and Pa -- St. Therese's Home -- The castle -- "This is your mother" -- Back home to the castle -- "Treatments" -- The outside world -- Back ward -- "I'm really crazy now" -- Fighting for my life -- Step-by-step -- Joe -- Healing work -- Harvard -- A voice for the mentally ill.

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Balter, Marie, 1930- --Mental health.


Mental illness.
Mental health.
Psychiatric hospital patients.
Psychoses--Patients--United States--Biography.
Mentally ill--Abuse of.