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Name: Rescuing Patty Hearst
Author: Virginia Holman

📘 Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman

A daughter of a schizophrenic mother recounts how she and her sister were held hostage for four years while their mother gave way to psychosis and how the medical system of the 1980s inhibited patient progress and victimized their families.

First publish date: 2003

Authors: Virginia Holman

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