Bibliograph

I should have been music, Babette Becker

Type

Label

I should have been music, Babette Becker

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

I should have been music

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Babette Becker

Summary

My memoir, I Should Have Been Music, covers the four years I spent on four different mental hospitals from 1957 to 1960. It was a time when little was known about mental illness, except the shame and horror of it, and nothing was known about early childhood trauma. I was passed from hospital to hospital carrying several severe classic diagnostic labels, and I narrowly missed being sent to a State hospital as my final stop, where, if not for luck, I might have been incarcerated for the rest of

Target audience

adult

Classification