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OverviewKatya Cengel became patient number 090 71 51 at the Roth Psychosomatic Unit at Children's Hospital at Stanford in 1986. She was 10 years old. Overwhelmed by feelings of abandonment, worthlessness and anger at having to care for her depressed father, she wanted out. She found it the only way she knows how by starving herself. Thirty years later Katya, now a journalist, discovers her young age was not the only thing that made her hospital stay unusual. The idea of psychosomatic units themselves, where patients have dual medical and psychological diagnoses, was a revolutionary one, since largely fallen out of favor. Katya documents this, tracking down the doctors, psychologists and counselors who once cared for her. What happened to her as a child is told in the voice of the troubled 10-year-old girl she once was. The two narratives unfold simultaneously. The result is a gut-wrenching account of childhood mental illness told from the inside interspersed with updates from experts in the field. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Katya CengelPublisher: Woodhall Press Imprint: Woodhall Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.439kg ISBN: 9781954907683ISBN 10: 1954907680 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 30 September 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPrologueBook I: Remember to ForgetThe PrisonersA Taste The PatientsStory TimeHungerThe PrinceThe End (Almost)His SubjectAdmissionA Very Special CategoryBook II: Then and NowBack Behind BarsRothThe QueenShadows Number 090 71 51Incredible Shrinking KidsLittle Difficult OneEscapeAntipsychoticBloodsuckersThe StorytellerThose Who Haunt the MirrorBy ProxyA Rock Feels No PainEverybody Loves DanThe PretendersDedicationGet Well SoonReading Between the LinesExtracurricular ActivitiesBook III: AfterComprehensive Care UnitScared StraightTalk TherapyMementosCountdownPricelessGiving UpThe Warmth of a GhostFlowers on Your GraveFake SantaHaunted GroundDischargeWhat Might Have BeenSmokeStraight FlushTo Be ContinuedLas AmigosAfterwordAcknowledgmentsNotesReviews"""Katya's early pain, showing up as anorexia, landed her in a med-psych ward at age ten: a speechless child tied down with cotton strips, force-fed through a tube. Fortunately she found her voice on paper and a calling to tell the stories of other silenced children. Beautifully written, Straitjackets and Lunch Money is a searing page-turner and wake-up call."" --Joan Steinau Lester, PEN-award winning author of Loving Before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White." """Straitjackets and Lunch Money is a marvel--a bracing account of the author's childhood mental illness written with such lucid honesty, such palpable empathy, that the reader becomes immediately invested in the fortunes of each sick or lost child we meet. It is a wise and merciless book, humble and deeply brave. I can't imagine what it cost Cengel to write this book, but I'm profoundly glad that she wrote it."" --Ted Scheinman, senior editor of Smithsonian Magazine and author of Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan. ""Katya's early pain, showing up as anorexia, landed her in a med-psych ward at age ten: a speechless child tied down with cotton strips, force-fed through a tube. Fortunately she found her voice on paper and a calling to tell the stories of other silenced children. Beautifully written, Straitjackets and Lunch Money is a searing page-turner and wake-up call."" --Joan Steinau Lester, PEN-award winning author of Loving Before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White." Author InformationKatya Cengel is the author of Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) and Foreword INDIES winner From Chernobyl with Love and two other non-fiction books including Exiled featured in a California State Library curated collection. Katya reports from around the world for New York Times Magazine, Marie Claire and Smithsonian among others. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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