Submitted Literature
A Sense of Freedom
Review
Autobiographical account of extreme violence and anti-social personality disorder – and recovery.
Key Themes:
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Autobiography
- Revealing Reads
- Violence
Significant Quotes / Pages
107 – “prison eats your insides out, and ties your stomach in knots, leaving your heart very heavy. All of this takes place when you are alone, but it wouldn’t be the done thing to let this be seen by other people”
Reference: Jimmy, Boyle. 1977. A Sense of Freedom. London: Pan, 1977
Reviewer
- Charley Baker
Date Review Submitted: Monday 23rd March 2009
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- Addiction
- Addiction
- Alcoholism
- Animals
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Anxiety
- Asylums
- auditory hallucinations
- Autobiography
- Bereavement
- Biography
- Bipolar Affective Disorder
- Cannabis
- Carer Issues
- Child Abuse
- Child and Adolescent Carers
- Childhood / Adolescence
- Cocaine
- Creativity and Madness
- Criminally induced insanity
- Cultural Psychiatry
- Cure
- De Clérambaults Syndrome
- Dementia / Alzheimer's
- Depression
- Developmental / Learning Disorders
- Diversity and Ethnicity
- Domestic Violence
- Eating Disorders
- ECT
- Education
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Fiction
- Head Injury
- Heroin
- History of Psychiatry
- Home
- Hysteria
- Institutional Abuses
- Isolation
- Medical Training
- Meditation and Mindfulness
- Mental Illness and The Psychiatric Institution
- Morbid Jealousy
- Multiple Personality Disorder / Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Munchausen by Proxy
- Mutism
- Neurological Disorders
- Novel
- Obsessions
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Personal / Professional
- Personality
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Post-natal Depression
- Postmodern Madness
- Professional / Occupational Stress
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychosexual Disorders
- Psychosis
- Psychosynthesis
- Psychotherapy
- Rape
- Religion
- Revealing Reads
- Schizoaffective Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Self-destructive behaviour
- Self-Injury
- Societal Pressure
- Stress
- Suicidality
- Test
- Tourettes Syndrome
- Violence
- Vulnerability