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Agnes's jacket

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In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other patients have managed to get their stories out, at least in disguised form. Today, in a vibrant underground net-work of "psychiatric survivor groups" all over the world, patients work together to unravel the mysteries of madness and help one another re-cover. Optimistic, courageous, and surprising, Agnes's Jacket takes us from a code-cracking bunker…

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  • Other · English · 2009
    Modern Times · 310 pages · 9781594865442
Alternative treatmentMentally illPsychologyPhilosophyMentally Ill PersonsInstitutional careSurvivorsMental illness