Title:
Asylum : Hollywood tales from my great depression: brain dis-ease, recovery, and being my mother's son
Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
New York : Weinstein, 2012.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781602861350
Abstract:
The popular actor challenges stigmas about mental illness in a personal account about his own struggle with clinical depression that discusses such topics as his mother's schizophrenia, his battles with addiction, and his efforts as an activist.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
No kidding, me too! -- Abandon all hope for a better past -- Lying for a living -- An egomaniac with an inferiority complex -- Let the shame begin! -- The hunchback of Hoboken -- If it ain't one thing it's your mother! -- The monkey was off my back, but the circus was still in town -- These are the good old days! -- Stuck on stupid -- The great depression -- Twelve steps out of the mile square -- An open letter to the late, great Frank Capra.
Personal Subject:
Language:
English
