My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum by Herman Charles Merivale: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 8 original MP3 tracks, 3:05:38 running time and a link to listen.
My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum, credited to Herman Charles Merivale, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum by Herman Charles Merivale. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Fully titled My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum, by a Sane Patient, this memoir describes its author's, Herman Merivale's, experience in one of England's countryside asylums during the 1860's. The main subject - in this case, the author - is less than justly sentenced to a facility for the mentally disturbed. Literally crazy caricatures abound, prisoner and jailer alike. Lofty psychology experts float in and out of Merivale's stay, some more respectable than others, but mostly clueless to patients' real needs. Nurses withhold or too bountifully dispense medications. Wardens rely on inhumane tactics to illicit compliance. As our writer states, this time in British history was "when imprisonment was a form of cruelty which [needed] a new name." He highlights the horrific, hopeless conditions faced by any man, woman or child with even a mild case of depression or of schizophrenia or, for perhaps the most unfortunate souls, of ill-meaning family paying hefty sums to have them committed. (Summary by Lily Gross)
Recording facts
- Recording title: My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum
- Author credits: Herman Charles Merivale
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 8
- Listed recording duration: 3:05:38
Catalogue topics
- psychology
- england
- medicine
- study
- health
- human rights
- mental
- patients
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter I — 19:53
- 02 - Chapter II — 22:56
- 03 - Chapter III — 23:50
- 04 - Chapter IV — 26:11
- 05 - Chapter V — 26:48
- 06 - Chapter VI — 31:53
- 07 - Chapter VII — 27:47
- 08 - ‘L’envoi.’ — 6:20
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