Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

" A brilliantly documented chronicle of young woman's long struggle with schizophrenia."

-- Willard Gaylin, The New Republic

"Sylvia Frumkin," highly intelligent young girl, became a schizophrenic in her late teens and spent most of the next seventeen years in anti out of mental institutions. Susan Sheehan, a talented reporter followed "Sylvia" for almost a year talking with and observing her listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with doctors, even for a period sleeping in the bed next to her in a mental hospital.

"Susan Sheehan has committed an extraordinary act of journalism....She brings relentless intelligent attention to bear on a particular case, a journalistic practice that almost always results in new and disturbing insights into those mindless generalities and prejudice and certitudes we tend to carry around with us." -- Meg Greenfield, front page Washington Post Book World

"Sheehan is tenacious, observant and unsentimental. The history of a single patient leads us into a maze of understaffed institutions, bureaucratic fumbling, trial-and-error treatment and familial incomprehension. Though Sheehan keeps herself invisible, her sympathy is palpable."

-- Walter Clemons, Newsweek

By the author of Lift for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair

• A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems
• Voices from the Inside: Readings on the Experiences of Mental Illness
• Girl, Interrupted
• Community Mental Health
• No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
• The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
• The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
• 9 Highland Road: Sane Living for the Mentally Ill
• Clinical Psychology (PSY 334 Introduction to Clinical Psychology)
• The Music Room