THE LAST ASYLUM: A MEMOIR OF MADNESS IN OUR TIMES

Book ID/图书代码： 03635016B89362

English Summary/英文概要： The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor’s haunting memoir of her journey through the UK mental health system.

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE

In July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what had once been England’s largest psychiatric institution: Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital.

This searingly honest, thought-provoking and beautifully written memoir is the story of the author’s madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth century. It is a meditation on her own experience of breakdown and healing, but also that of the millions of other people who have suffered, are suffering, will suffer mental illness.

’Personal story, psychoanalytic process, the experience of madness, the feel of being an inpatient in the last days of Friern, the history of the asylum . . . A beautiful memoir, engrossing’ Independent

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书是Barbara Taylor经历英国精神健康体系的动人回忆录。

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1988年7月，知名青年史学家Barbara Taylor被关进了当时英格兰最大的精神病机构科尔尼哈奇疯人院，也就是后来的Friern医院。

这部真挚动人、发人深省的回忆录记录了作者发疯的岁月，也记录下了20世纪疯人院系统衰亡的过程。本书是她关于自身精神崩溃和治愈的反思，同时也道出了数以百万计的备受精神疾病困扰的人们的心声。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“动人、勇敢、智慧”——Susan Hill，《泰晤士报》

“令人炫目的杰作，充满着生机和希望”——《星期日邮报》

“美丽动人……再多的溢美之词也无法评价这部作品，因为它真的是太棒了”——Susie Orbach，《独立报》

“这部作品不容错过……本书记录非常谨慎、引人入胜、坦诚真挚，在同类作品中当属出类拔萃……可与Helen Macdonald的《鹰》比肩……作者的这部重要而极具原创性的作品非常值得称道。”——《超心理》

“个人经历，精神分析过程，疯狂体验，在Frien医院最后日子里作为住院病人的感受，疯人院的历史……这是一部美丽而引人入胜的回忆录。”——《独立报》

’Moving, brave and intelligent’ Susan Hill, The Times

’Dazzling. A great achievement, full of life and hope’ Sunday Telegraph

Barbara Taylor’s previous books include an award-winning study of nineteenth-century socialist feminism, Eve and the New Jerusalem; an intellectual biography of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft; and On Kindness, a defence of fellow feeling co-written with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. She is a longstanding editor of the leading history journal, History Workshop Journal, and a director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. She teaches History and English at Queen Mary University of London.

Eloquent, compassionate, and utterly absorbing . . . The Last Asylum is the best sort of memoir, transcending the purely personal to confront a larger social history (Sarah Waters)

Beautiful . . . it is hard to write well enough about this book because it is so good (Susie Orbach Independent)

A wise, considered and timely book (Hilary Mantel)

Moving, brave and intelligent (Susan Hill The Times)

Superb. Riveting, insightful and relentlessly honest (Darian Leader)

An impressive book, strong on narrative, deeply felt and measured in tone... The Last Asylum will stand the test of time. (Literary Review)

A gripping (often painful) account of madness, a fascinating description of psychoanalysis, a historical reflection on asylums and a meditation of the interrelationships between care and cure... Unsparing [and] subtly theoretical, an endeavor not only worth reading, but worth emulating. (LA Review of Books)

A fascinating if harrowing journey . . . Taylor is a deft and engaging historian (Washington Post)

Barbara Taylor’s [memoir] is not to be missed . . . An extraordinarily measured, fascinating and honest account, that stands out within the genre... Her book can be compared with Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk . . . Barbara Taylor is to be applauded for an important and original contribution (Metapsychology)

About the Author/作者介绍： Barbara Taylor，重要历史期刊《History Workshop Journal》的长期编辑， Raphael Samuel历史中心主任，目前在伦敦玛丽女王大学教授历史和英文。曾写作出版有关19世纪社会主义女权主义的获奖研究著作《 Eve and the New Jerusalem》，有关女权主义先锋人物 Mary Wollstonecraft的传记等。

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