Over the weekend, the Guardian printed an excerpt from a book which is about to be published by an author called Nora Vincent titled ‘Voluntary Madness : My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin’. Apart from squirming at the title for a number of reasons, the premise of the book also  makes me uncomfortable. [...]

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Posted 5 Jan 2009 7:20 AM by Fighting Monsters | Report Abuse

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