Mental health aftercare, her drinking, people stagnating at day care locations, and the ubiquitous antisocial resident are all metioned in Ch 21, which is summarised here.
Albert Fish was a serial killer and cannibal born in 1870. He came from a family with a history of mental illness and was abused in an orphanage. As an adult, he engaged in self-harm, cannibalism, and sexually abused young boys and girls. In 1928, he abducted, murdered, and ate 10-year-old Grace Budd. He was eventually arrested, confessed, and was executed by electric chair in 1936.
John's complete book summarised over 5 pages. Deals with life in the old asylums, therapeutic communities, squats, medication, and relationships. A poet's eye for detail.
This collection of poems explores different aspects of homelessness through various poetic forms. It describes how disasters can cause homelessness, teens running away from abusive homes, and those who spend money on drugs instead of housing. A diamante poem contrasts the hopeless state of being homeless with a hopeful future of being clean and happy. The document provides attribution for the poems and their author.
The psychological evaluation analyzes Albert Fish, known as the "Vampire of Brooklyn". He was a serial killer, child molester, and rapist who engaged in sexually deviant acts that escalated to murder over 50 years. He suffered from numerous psychological disorders and paraphilias. Due to the severity and duration of his pathology, effective rehabilitation would have been unlikely. Research indicates intervening early with children exhibiting deviant behaviors can help circumvent them becoming sex offenders.
Albert Fish was a serial killer and cannibal who was active in the 1920s-1930s in New York City. He lured children away from their families under false pretenses before torturing, raping, and murdering them. In 1934, Fish was apprehended after sending a disturbing letter to the family of one of his victims, 10-year-old Grace Budd, describing what he had done to her. He confessed to killing several children and was eventually executed by electric chair for his crimes, seeing the execution as his final thrill.
Hamilton Fish, also known as Albert Fish, was a serial killer and cannibal who tortured and murdered children in the early 20th century. He would lure children from their homes by gaining their trust, then torture and sexually assault them using implements like a nail-studded paddle before killing and sometimes cannibalizing them. Fish committed hundreds of murders across multiple states and was only caught after confessing to the murder of Grace Budd. At his trial he was found sane and guilty and was executed by electrocution in 1936.
Albert Fish was a serial killer and cannibal nicknamed "The Werewolf of Wisteria" and "The Gray Man" who targeted poor, black, and disabled children in the early 20th century. He would lure children with his kindly appearance and then torture, rape, kill, and eat his victims. Fish had a history of mental illness in his family and suffered abuse as a child. He took pleasure in inflicting pain on himself and others. He was eventually caught and executed after writing a letter describing his murder of 10-year-old Grace Budd, which her mother recognized as being in his handwriting.
This document summarizes the crimes of serial killer Albert Fish. It details that he murdered three children - Francis McDonnell, Billy Gaffney, and Grace Budd - between 1924 and 1928 in New York and New Jersey. Fish wrote a letter to Grace Budd's mother in 1934 describing how he kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and cannibalized Grace over the course of nine days. Fish was eventually arrested, tried, and executed by electrocution in 1936 after pleading insanity due to voices telling him to kill children.
Albert Fish was a serial killer and cannibal born in 1870. He came from a family with a history of mental illness and was abused in an orphanage. As an adult, he engaged in self-harm, cannibalism, and sexually abused young boys and girls. In 1928, he abducted, murdered, and ate 10-year-old Grace Budd. He was eventually arrested, confessed, and was executed by electric chair in 1936.
John's complete book summarised over 5 pages. Deals with life in the old asylums, therapeutic communities, squats, medication, and relationships. A poet's eye for detail.
This collection of poems explores different aspects of homelessness through various poetic forms. It describes how disasters can cause homelessness, teens running away from abusive homes, and those who spend money on drugs instead of housing. A diamante poem contrasts the hopeless state of being homeless with a hopeful future of being clean and happy. The document provides attribution for the poems and their author.
The psychological evaluation analyzes Albert Fish, known as the "Vampire of Brooklyn". He was a serial killer, child molester, and rapist who engaged in sexually deviant acts that escalated to murder over 50 years. He suffered from numerous psychological disorders and paraphilias. Due to the severity and duration of his pathology, effective rehabilitation would have been unlikely. Research indicates intervening early with children exhibiting deviant behaviors can help circumvent them becoming sex offenders.
Albert Fish was a serial killer and cannibal who was active in the 1920s-1930s in New York City. He lured children away from their families under false pretenses before torturing, raping, and murdering them. In 1934, Fish was apprehended after sending a disturbing letter to the family of one of his victims, 10-year-old Grace Budd, describing what he had done to her. He confessed to killing several children and was eventually executed by electric chair for his crimes, seeing the execution as his final thrill.
Hamilton Fish, also known as Albert Fish, was a serial killer and cannibal who tortured and murdered children in the early 20th century. He would lure children from their homes by gaining their trust, then torture and sexually assault them using implements like a nail-studded paddle before killing and sometimes cannibalizing them. Fish committed hundreds of murders across multiple states and was only caught after confessing to the murder of Grace Budd. At his trial he was found sane and guilty and was executed by electrocution in 1936.
Albert Fish was a serial killer and cannibal nicknamed "The Werewolf of Wisteria" and "The Gray Man" who targeted poor, black, and disabled children in the early 20th century. He would lure children with his kindly appearance and then torture, rape, kill, and eat his victims. Fish had a history of mental illness in his family and suffered abuse as a child. He took pleasure in inflicting pain on himself and others. He was eventually caught and executed after writing a letter describing his murder of 10-year-old Grace Budd, which her mother recognized as being in his handwriting.
This document summarizes the crimes of serial killer Albert Fish. It details that he murdered three children - Francis McDonnell, Billy Gaffney, and Grace Budd - between 1924 and 1928 in New York and New Jersey. Fish wrote a letter to Grace Budd's mother in 1934 describing how he kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and cannibalized Grace over the course of nine days. Fish was eventually arrested, tried, and executed by electrocution in 1936 after pleading insanity due to voices telling him to kill children.
Louise Erdrich is a Native American author born in 1954 in North Dakota. She comes from a family involved with Native American culture and wrote novels, poems, and children's books exploring Native American themes. Her most famous work, Love Medicine, won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984. Erdrich currently lives in Minnesota where she owns a bookstore. The story takes place in a town near a lake on a Native American reservation and focuses on the character Fleur Pillager, a Chippewa woman with magical powers who is both feared and disliked by the townspeople.
Florence house a place free from homelessness and full of hopePrebleStreet
Florence House provides permanent housing and support for formerly homeless women. Before moving to Florence House, the tenants had spent over 7,000 nights in shelters, with some staying over 1,000 nights. Mental health and substance abuse issues had prevented many from maintaining stable housing in the past. Florence House offers residents personal space, dignity, assistance and community. Most residents have remained housed, with only one known to have returned to homelessness. The document introduces two residents, JoJo and Donna, and describes how Florence House has given them stability, community and opportunities to help others.
This summarises the chapter on Florence in the compendium. The chapter covers her voice from God, her serious health problems, and her recovery. The chapter speculates that she had bipolar disorder.
Slavery began in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 and was practiced throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. The Underground Railroad helped slaves escape to freedom in Canada through a network of safe houses. It required courage for slaves to flee, traveling at night and relying on conductors to guide them along routes called "lines" to places known as "stations." Harriet Tubman was a famous conductor who led over 300 slaves to freedom after escaping slavery herself.
Laura's health is deteriorating and she has been given a month to live. Science has failed to cure her bone dust inhalation condition. She comes across an ad from a woman in Shang Simla claiming to have answers. Laura steals money to travel there, hoping for a cure. Her family is distracted by their own issues and does not notice her leaving.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is Harriet Jacobs' autobiographical account of her life as a slave and her struggle to gain freedom. The novel explores themes of slavery, freedom, religion, and history during the time period when slavery was legal in the American South. Religion sustained Jacobs and gave her hope that God would protect her and her children, while the fight for freedom from slavery and opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law were central to her experience.
Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explore the Mississippi River by canoe. They encounter various native tribes along the way and observe the landscape and wildlife. They eventually discover a large Illinois village near the river bank, where the chief sends out elders to greet the travelers, who smoke a calumet pipe with them as a sign of friendship.
These 9 summaries from the Charley Project describe real-life cases of people who disappeared without a trace, often under mysterious circumstances. The cases include children like Bobby Dunbar who disappeared in 1912 at age 4, possibly falling from a railroad trestle or being abducted. Another case describes 8-year-old Georgia Weckler who had expressed fears of being kidnapped just before vanishing in 1947. The most chilling case may be of the Sodder children who asked to stay up late on Christmas Eve in 1945 and were never seen again after a fire destroyed their family home. While the causes of these disappearances may never be known, they still haunt memories today.
Ed and Lorraine Warren were famous American paranormal investigators and authors. They investigated over 10,000 cases in their career and were involved in some of the most well-known cases, including the Amityville haunting, the case of the demonic doll Annabelle, and the Perron family haunting. The Warrens claimed to have encountered violent demonic presences at the home in Amityville and helped the Perron family by performing an exorcism to rid their home of the witch's curse that was haunting and possessing them.
A mentally ill teenage girl witnessed the brutal murder of her family. She now has no family and only the local physician to help relieve her disturbing thoughts and voices. The film pitch proposes a horror movie following this girl's descent into madness as she struggles without a family and deals with the aftermath of the traumatic event she witnessed. It provides details on the key characters, proposed actors, director, settings, comparisons to other films, and questions at the end.
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In the first email, she describes the extreme poverty seen throughout Port-au-Prince, including shanty towns without plumbing or sanitation. Children beg in the streets without shoes or clothes. Sara's group promises to provide tents for three homeless women and their eight children.
In the second email, Sara discusses several cases of sexual assault experienced by Haitian women. These include a 20-year-old who was gang raped and is now pregnant and homeless, a 3-year-old girl who was raped after wandering from her tent, and threats of arson against a 50-year-old woman's tent. Sara notes the overwhelming
Kathleen Hall was a New Zealand nurse who volunteered in China in the 1920s. During the Japanese invasion of China, she risked her life repeatedly smuggling medical supplies through Japanese lines to treat Chinese soldiers. Though she was not Chinese, her foreign status allowed her to travel freely. However, the Japanese eventually discovered her efforts and deported her back to New Zealand for aiding the Chinese resistance.
The document summarizes the plot of Oliver Twist. Oliver is orphaned as a child and suffers greatly. He escapes to London and is recruited by Fagin's gang of thieves. Nancy helps Oliver discover his origins to help him escape the criminal world, but she is ultimately killed for betraying Fagin and Bill Sikes. With the help of kind people like Mr. Brownlow and Rose Maylie, Oliver discovers his true family history.
Jane Eyre is a novel published in 1847 about a female orphan's journey from childhood to adulthood. The protagonist Jane experiences a loveless childhood and suffers neglect from her aunt and cousins. She is eventually sent to a harsh boarding school before becoming a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with the master of the house, Mr. Rochester. The novel explores Jane's development into a compassionate woman and provides insight into the roles and treatment of orphans, governesses, and women in Victorian England.
ICE CANDY MAN part 2 - Introduction and Discussion.pptxLadduNJ
This chapter summarizes the events in chapters 1-10 of the novel "Ice Candy Man" by Bapsi Sidhwa. It discusses Lenny's disability, her relationships with family members and servants, and the rising political tensions in pre-partition India. Key events include Lenny learning about the connection between the British and her polio, visits to her godmother's house and Imam Din's village, and a dinner party where a fight breaks out between a Sikh guest and a British official, foreshadowing future conflicts. The chapter also describes Lenny stealing glass jars from her cousin Rosy and hiding them, before being caught by her godmother.
Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old cancer patient, meets and falls in love with Augustus Waters, a 17-year-old cancer survivor, at a support group meeting. They bond over their experiences and favorite novel An Imperial Affliction. Wanting closure, Hazel contacts the author Peter Van Houten with Augustus' help. Van Houten agrees to answer her questions in person in Amsterdam. There, their meeting is a disappointment as Van Houten is rude. Augustus later reveals his cancer has returned. After his death, Hazel discovers Augustus was writing a sequel for her, finding love despite their illnesses.
R D Laing Sanity Madness and the Family notes on chapter 11Andrew Voyce MA
Maya experienced schizophrenia after being away from her family for years as a child. She was hospitalized after attacking her mother with a knife. Maya has sexual fantasies about her parents and feels she can influence and be influenced by others. Her parents see her as changed and do not accept her attempts at autonomy. The authors conclude Maya's clinical symptoms are the result of troubled family interactions.
R D Laing Sanity Madness and the Family notes on chapter 11Andrew Voyce MA
1) Agnes Lawson, a 20-year-old woman diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, feels unwelcome at home with her parents and two married siblings.
2) R.D. Laing and A. Esterson conducted 14 hours of interviews with Agnes and her family, including 10 hours of recorded interviews.
3) Agnes expressed feelings that her father did not want her at home and wanted her back in the hospital. Her mother was perplexed by Agnes' problems with her father. Laing and Esterson aimed to understand Agnes' perspective and that of her family.
This document provides a lengthy summary and critique of the novel "The Shock of the Fall" by Nathan Filer. Some of the key points made include:
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- As the reviewer summarizes the plot of the book in detail, they continue to criticize aspects they find unrealistic or not insightful about mental health. Scenes jump around in time in a confusing way.
- The reviewer questions whether the book aims to reinforce stereotypes about mental illness rather than provide
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Laura's health is deteriorating and she has been given a month to live. Science has failed to cure her bone dust inhalation condition. She comes across an ad from a woman in Shang Simla claiming to have answers. Laura steals money to travel there, hoping for a cure. Her family is distracted by their own issues and does not notice her leaving.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is Harriet Jacobs' autobiographical account of her life as a slave and her struggle to gain freedom. The novel explores themes of slavery, freedom, religion, and history during the time period when slavery was legal in the American South. Religion sustained Jacobs and gave her hope that God would protect her and her children, while the fight for freedom from slavery and opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law were central to her experience.
Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explore the Mississippi River by canoe. They encounter various native tribes along the way and observe the landscape and wildlife. They eventually discover a large Illinois village near the river bank, where the chief sends out elders to greet the travelers, who smoke a calumet pipe with them as a sign of friendship.
These 9 summaries from the Charley Project describe real-life cases of people who disappeared without a trace, often under mysterious circumstances. The cases include children like Bobby Dunbar who disappeared in 1912 at age 4, possibly falling from a railroad trestle or being abducted. Another case describes 8-year-old Georgia Weckler who had expressed fears of being kidnapped just before vanishing in 1947. The most chilling case may be of the Sodder children who asked to stay up late on Christmas Eve in 1945 and were never seen again after a fire destroyed their family home. While the causes of these disappearances may never be known, they still haunt memories today.
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1) Agnes Lawson, a 20-year-old woman diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, feels unwelcome at home with her parents and two married siblings.
2) R.D. Laing and A. Esterson conducted 14 hours of interviews with Agnes and her family, including 10 hours of recorded interviews.
3) Agnes expressed feelings that her father did not want her at home and wanted her back in the hospital. Her mother was perplexed by Agnes' problems with her father. Laing and Esterson aimed to understand Agnes' perspective and that of her family.
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- As the reviewer summarizes the plot of the book in detail, they continue to criticize aspects they find unrealistic or not insightful about mental health. Scenes jump around in time in a confusing way.
- The reviewer questions whether the book aims to reinforce stereotypes about mental illness rather than provide
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Barbara Taylor: Chapter 21 'The Last Asylum' (2014)
1. Chapter 21 : The Hostel
from Barbara Taylor ‘The Last Asylum’
*Pine Street provided community care of a kind that is nearly extinct today*.
At Pine Street and Whittingdon Day Hospital patients and staff collaborated to
cure or mitigate mental illness. Some people were chronically ill but others
changed, moved forward. MH officials tried to close the place down, Barbara
was told * ‘People just stagnated there.’ The care from the hostel was in the
mould of Henry Hawkins and The Aftercare Association for Poor and Friendless
Female Convalescents on Leaving Asylums for the Insane. Circle 33 is today like
Together in providing aftercare. She says today there are many different
hostels and these are mainly available only to S117’s as non-ex-detainees are
means tested and have to pay high fees. Barbara notes that even at the peak
of asylum care, most MH people were looked after by their families. She was
not ‘friendless’ but took public health care for granted (cf Israel.) She was an
old hand at shared living, having had a house share, but she found housemates
impinged on her. Her old house share was set up in 1982 and she was asked to
leave. She was the mad woman with the drink in the attic and sometimes she
refused to do her share of household chores. When she got into the Circle 33
hostel she had a wave of freedom, overwhelming. The rooms were small but
her possessions were being looked after by others, and when she got her own
flat 2 ½ years later all her belongings were returned to her. There was an
antisocial resident who ate everything and played loud stereo. She got on well
with anorexic Polly. She heard Polly vomiting sometimes and both Polly and
her were hospitalised twice while at the hostel. Polly may have tried to upset
her friends with her dangerous eating, which even led to A&E due to her
frailty. She had a friendly social worker, and Florence did not throw her out as
she feared might happen. Her analyst said she was now making use of what
was available to her.