A 75th anniversary edition of the landmark novel that forever changed the way we think about mental illness and its treatment Suffering a breakdown in 1941, thirty-five-year-old novelist Mary Jane Ward was diagnosed, or perhaps misdiagnosed, with schizophrenia and committed to a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York.
Inspiration for the 1948 film starring Olivia de Havilland, The Snake.
From that horrific experience came this gripping story.
A 75th anniversary edition of the landmark novel that forever changed the way we think about mental illness and its treatment Suffering a breakdown in 1941, thirty-five-year-old novelist Mary Jane Ward was diagnosed, or perhaps misdiagnosed, with schizophrenia and committed to a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York
