{"product_id":"mad-love-9798234088185","title":"mad love","description":"\u003cp\u003emad love is the intimate true story of \u003cstrong\u003ea young man who finds love at a mental hospital-\u0026amp; madness in his love of men and women. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emad love reveals: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVivid portraits of the people we call patients.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA guru psychiatrist whom you both respect and suspect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe mixture of sanity and insanity in each of us.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnique Bluegrass culture \u0026amp; Kentucky history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur Special Project introduced a radical openness and optimism to a mental hospital. Differences between staff and patients blur; anyone can be therapeutic for anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis memor conveys \u003cstrong\u003eastonishing friends and magical girlfriends, a journey into the delirious and the erotic.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy book brings you INSIDE a mental hospital: to its strangeness, compassion, and unexpected poignancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was there-I recorded the details, dialogue, drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is your chance to participate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSUMMARY of the STORY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDon is a 24-year-old social worker at Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. This is the second oldest psychiatric facility in the United States.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis supervisor, \u003cstrong\u003eBrenda\u003c\/strong\u003e, guides him through the mislaid people cast away here. Don befriends these fascinating folk: a winsome girl, Alice; John, once a lawyer, once a pianist, who survives 30 years in the hospital; Kevin, the entertaining preacher no one can capture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome patients are trouble: huge Hume strangles Don in the nurse's station. Bluesy and others drink illicit alcohol. One midnight, pretty Donna runs out of the hospital... Don coaxes her back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon grows close to the patients, and learns from everyone. He and Brenda decipher the difference between sick and crazy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new ward opens, a \u003cstrong\u003eSpecial Project\u003c\/strong\u003e. The leader is \u003cstrong\u003eDr Stan\u003c\/strong\u003e, a radical psychiatrist who demands everyone be candid. Don joins, but his challenges are a bunch of strange patients, plus unknown staff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne day Don sees a young woman comfort a patient who is suffering a seizure. The woman is \u003cstrong\u003eCaryn\u003c\/strong\u003e. At the hospital, at a party-at Caryn's mushroom house-they become friends, then lovers. 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