A Mind That Found Itself: An Early 20th-Century Mental Health Memoir of Survival, Institutional Abuse, and the Fight for Patient Rights in Psychiatric Care

This book is an autobiographical account of the author's hospitalization and the abuses he suffered. In 1900 he was first confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He would later be confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During these periods he experienced and witnessed serious maltreatment at the hands of the staff. "A Mind That Found Itself" was widely and favorably reviewed, became a bestseller, and is still in print.