Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parlay was a patient there, as was her father and grandfather. Part memoir, part history, and beautifully written,Inside "The Mental" offers an episodic journey into the stigma, horror, and redemption that she found there. Now 92 years old, Parley looks back to document the emerging use of group therapy, advent of patient rights, and evolving ethics in psychiatry. She also reveals her role in groundbreaking experiments with LSD that brought the world's leading researchers to Saskatchewan's Weyburn Hospital--the Mental--where they used the drug (and coined the term "psychedelics") to treat addiction and mental illness.
