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Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors (American Lives)
Charles Barber
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| #2103145 in Books | University of Nebraska Press | 2005-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .83 x6.04 x8.86l,.90 | File type: PDF | 203 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| One man's quest for order and meaning, despite nearly crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder|By R. M. Peterson|"The black chair" of the title is a simple ugly black metal chair next to the desk at which Charles Barber once worked as an in-take assessor at the Bellevue homeless shelter in Manhattan. Most of the thousands of men he interviewed had psychiatric problems and a sub|From Publishers Weekly|Barber's intimate knowledge of mental disorder comes from inside and out, and both perspectives are haunted by the suicide of his friend, Henry, at age 21. Inside is the story of Barber's childhood phobias and incipient obsessive compulsiv
Day after day, night after night, the desperate men come and sit in the black chair next to Charles Barber’s desk in a basement office at Bellevue and tell of their travails, of prison and AIDS and heroin, of crack and methadone and sexual abuse, and the voices that plague them. In the silence between the stories, amid the peeling paint, musty odor, and flickering fluorescent light, Barber observes that this isn’t really where he is supposed to be.
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