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Sectioned : a Life Interrupted by William Ashhurst is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sectioned : a Life Interrupted about?

'I'd been in Claybury for four months before I was given ECT. I was sixteen. The day I went down for it I was wearing a striped hospital dressing gown and yellow pyjamas. I'd been given the Last Rites.' John O'Donoghue was first admitted to Claybury asylum with manic depression aged sixteen, just after his mother had been institutionalised. He spent over a decade in asylums, halfway houses, therapeutic communities, dosshouses, squats, and on the streets. Sectioned is an honest and moving account of his experiences. It is also ultimately the story of his survival against the odds, and of his coming of age in a Britain that was changing forever.

Author

William Ashhurst

Publisher

John Murray Publishers Ltd : [distributor] Bookpoint

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719520556

Subjects

Science, Physics, Stem

Rating

3.69 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14