Quarantine of The Mind: Obedience Training for Adult Humans

A searing personal account of life inside a mental institution and a powerful critique of the mental health system.

Quarantine of The Mind offers a rare glimpse into the world of forensic mental health, as experienced by W. Strawn Douglas, a patient committed to the Minnesota Security Hospital for nearly three decades. Through essays written during different periods of his institutionalization, Douglas exposes the often-dehumanizing hoops that the mentally ill must jump through in hopes of r...