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The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs. The snake pit mary jane ward national library of australia. Mary jane ward s classic 1946 novel the snake pit tells of a young womans year of treatment in a mental hospital. In describing the experiences of protagonist susan wood, herself the author of a best seller about the horrors of life in a mental hospital, mary jane ward provides an inmates view of one of the psychiatric institutions in the chicago area. The film is based on mary jane ward s novel also titledthe snake pit which was highly praised as the kind of wholly fresh book that makes the conventional novel seem dull and unrewarding engle 1946. And i left the novel comforted by the authors achievement. This was a pretty good showing for a family of hoosier hicks, as the press pointed out. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. This was his first book, collecting quite a few various zines.

A woman finds herself in a state mental institution and must spend several months under the care of her compassionate doctor before she can face the troubling secrets of her past and be cured. Based on the novel by mary jane ward, the filmmakers had arguably a greater need to distance themselves from hitchcocks psycho tale, and treat the trauma of the mentally ill in a docudrama format though symbolic dreams and cryptic imagery still proved to be an irresistible indulgence in snake pit. Disability studies and mental health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, jewish literature, queer studies, american studies, trauma studies, and comics to create an intersectional community of scholarship in literary disability studies of mental health. What the heroine endures and suffers is terrifying. First published in 1946 the snake pit open library. While some of the psychological verbiage in this adaptation of mary jane ward s autobiographical novel seems antiquated and overly simplistic today, the snake pit was rightly hosannahed as a breakthrough film in 1948. Snake pit by ward abebooks abebooks shop for books. Buy the snake pit ace books by ward, mary jane isbn. Snake pit by ward, first edition abebooks passion for books. Mary jane ward is currently considered a single author. Add to cart buy now more shipping options email a link to this book. Ebook fee download the snake pit, by mary jane ward. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. I felt that the original and only book cover for this.

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