Escape Report: After a fight with another patient on the ward, causing mild concussion, this patient wandered out of the hospital and was lost in the woods for two whole nights and days. She was recovered in a bus station in Fairview very confused and uncertain where she was trying to go. She was covered with mosquito bites. It was decided to place her on close supervision … .
From New York Neuro-Psychiatric Institute Notes: This 37-year-old female did not appear to have any motor difficulties. The patient appears to have learned to walk and talk at the normal time. Sent to Texas for birth records. Patient was delivered by midwife. No definite documentation of premature birth or birth traumas. History of blackouts and violent episodes in which patient felt as if she couldn’t control herself.
… Mr. Camacho is a well-dressed man (gray business suit) who appears to be in his 40’s. He operates a wholesale-retail nursery and has a confident, expansive manner. I would consider him to be a reliable informant who expresses genuine concern for his sister … .
LIST OF PROBLEMS AND TREATMENT PLANS
Repeated hospitalizations
Psychotic sy
Episodic violence
Lack of insight
Lack of motivation
Toothache
Cracked rib
Negativism
ORIENTED: Fully oriented
REMOTE MEMORY: Intact
RECENT MEMORY: Slightly impaired
RETENTION AND IMMEDIATE RECALL: Intact
COUNTING AND CALCULATIONS: Impaired (mistake in serial 7’s)
READING: Read with ease
SCHOOLING AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Commensurate.
Claims to have 2 yrs college? Welfare records indicate only 1 yr., 3 mths. in community college.
INTELLIGENCE RATING: Average
ABSTRACTING ABILITY: Impaired
ABILITY TO MAINTAIN SET OR ASSOCIATIVE: Intact
… After the implantation patient was markedly better with no episodes for two months. Symptoms then recurred. Amygdalotomy indicated but not carried out because of incident … .
There were one hundred thirteen more pages. They all followed Connie back to Rockover.
Don’t miss this novel from the author
of Braided Lives, The Longings of Women,
and Gone to Soldiers!
CITY OF DARKNESS,
CITY OF LIGHT
by
Marge Piercy
Paris is set to explode at the dawn of the
French Revolution, and three very different
women prepare for their roles in one of the
most tumultuous turning points in
European History.
CITY OF DARKNESS, CITY OF LIGHT
by Marge Piercy
Published by Ballantine Books.
Available in bookstores everywhere.
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright © 1976 by Marge Piercy
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All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Selection of The Woman Today Book Club, November 1976
Collection of Mrs. Edwin A. Bergman, Chicago
v3.0
Table of Contents
Cover
Other Books by this Author
Title Page
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
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