Is there no place on earth for me?

Recounts the lonely, harrowing life of a diagnosed schizophrenic Sylvia Frumkin, whose experience has included frequent hospitalizations from childhood on, bouts with insulin comas, electroshock treatments, and drug therapy.

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Main Author: Sheehan, Susan, 1937- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2014.
Edition:Second Vintage Books edition.
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Summary:Recounts the lonely, harrowing life of a diagnosed schizophrenic Sylvia Frumkin, whose experience has included frequent hospitalizations from childhood on, bouts with insulin comas, electroshock treatments, and drug therapy.
Item Description:"Most of the contents of this book originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:xv, 358 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9780804169189 (paperback)
0804169187 (paperback)
Author Notes:Susan Sheehan is the author of eight works of nonfiction. In 1983, she received a Pulitzer Prize for Is There No Place On Earth For Me? She was also a staff writer at The New Yorker . She died in 2026.