{"product_id":"9780957278905","title":"Asylum Bound: The very odd training experience of a psychiatric nurse in the 1970s","description":"\"God! Has it come to this?\"\u003cbr\u003eMeet Grace, white-haired, with dementia, being admitted to the daunting asylum with an unwelcome introduction from the student nurse. Then Percy, the crystal radio buff, with depression. Here is Harry, the Japanese ex-POW, whose bath-time is a re-living of battles fought and Walter, with the dodgy and less than faithful, girl-friend. What about Tom, who is getting secret signs from both the Newscaster on the BBC as well as the landlady of the local pub, or Betty who won't fit in the coffin, and needs a bit of encouragement?\u003cbr\u003eBut also meet Stuart, the very novice student nurse fearfully working on nights, standing there being strangled, not knowing what to do, or trying to come to grips on his first day on the ward with shaving a corpse.\u003cbr\u003eLearn about what goes on in the long asylum corridor \u0026amp; how to survive the laws of the asylum jungle. Stuart has to rely on information from the unlikeliest of sources, the Social Club hard drinkers. \u003cbr\u003eAsylum Bound is a wild weird walk through the experiences of a student nurse as he enters the unknown world of the mental \"asylum\" of the 1970s. It is a bizarre world, a world of terrible extremes. \u003cbr\u003eWithin this odd place there are Hogarthian characters of varying chaotic hues, some aggressive, some sad, some disturbed and some institutionalised, both patients and staff. It is in this strange world that Stuart begins to understand the origins of psychiatry and its terrible treatments, including lobotomies, E.C.T., insulin shock and even aversion therapy for underwear snatchers. He has to learn about schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, new and frightening conditions that had new and frightening treatments and outcomes.\u003cbr\u003eBut he finds an asylum coming to the end of any usefulness it might ever once have had. The patients are leaving, the staff are changing, and, thank God, the abuses are declining. It is a different world from anything he has experienced before. It is a very new world. It is a life-changing revelation. \u003cbr\u003eFor Stuart, what started as a novelty, progressed to fascination and was to end in tragedy. \u003cbr\u003eIt was the start of a long psychiatric nursing career. \u003cbr\u003eIt is, sadly, all true.","brand":"P. and B. Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090998038768,"sku":"9780957278905","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780957278905","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}