Barbara Gordon (1) (1935–)
Autore di I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Gordon, Barbara
- Data di nascita
- 1935
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
- Breve biografia
- Barbara Gordon (1) is the author of the best selling autobiography, I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can and a novel Defects of the Heart. Her last book, Jennifer Fever, was a provocative look at a middle aged man who turns in his spouse of many years for a newer, much younger, sexier model. Other nonfiction works include Older Men, Younger Women (which also includes a chapter on Older Woman, Younger Men Relationships).
In addition to having been a writer for NBC's The Today Show, Ms. Barbara Gordon is also a three time Emmy award winning film maker. Some of the subjects explored in her documentaries were: Dalton Trumbo: A Profile Slumlord, The Plight of Returning Vietnam Veterans Victor and Marchetti: Former CIA Agent.
Ms. Barbara Gordon has contributed to PBS's The Great American Dream Machine and Black Journal. She also has written for Parade and numerous other magazines. Over the past few years she has given scores of lectures and speeches throughout the United States to women's groups, college campuses and town halls on many topics.
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Mental Illness
Barbara Gordon's groundbreaking memoir tells the extraordinary story of a woman who has it all, or thinks she does-a career as an Emmy-award-winning documentary producer, a man she loves, a world of friends, and a beautiful apartment in Manhattan. But beneath the facade, Barbara's life is spinning out of control. In spite of the pills prescribed by her doctor, a nameless terror disrupting her daily life intensifies until she is besieged by crippling anxiety attacks. A formerly strong, independent, successful woman, Barbara's life becomes a nightmare of paralysis and fear. When Barbara finds herself unable to leave her apartment or walk the streets of New York alone, she decides to take charge of her life. She doesn't want pills, she wants answers. Instead of ending her fears, quitting the medicine leads to the unraveling of what she thought was her perfect life, and Barbara becomes a casualty of a flawed and inept mental health system. Barbara had often spoken for the voiceless in her films, but she suddenly finds herself powerless, without a voice of her own. Though she feels frightened and misunderstood, the tenderness and love of another young patient, Jim, helps Barbara rediscover her voice and her identity.… (altro)
Barbara Gordon's groundbreaking memoir tells the extraordinary story of a woman who has it all, or thinks she does-a career as an Emmy-award-winning documentary producer, a man she loves, a world of friends, and a beautiful apartment in Manhattan. But beneath the facade, Barbara's life is spinning out of control. In spite of the pills prescribed by her doctor, a nameless terror disrupting her daily life intensifies until she is besieged by crippling anxiety attacks. A formerly strong, independent, successful woman, Barbara's life becomes a nightmare of paralysis and fear. When Barbara finds herself unable to leave her apartment or walk the streets of New York alone, she decides to take charge of her life. She doesn't want pills, she wants answers. Instead of ending her fears, quitting the medicine leads to the unraveling of what she thought was her perfect life, and Barbara becomes a casualty of a flawed and inept mental health system. Barbara had often spoken for the voiceless in her films, but she suddenly finds herself powerless, without a voice of her own. Though she feels frightened and misunderstood, the tenderness and love of another young patient, Jim, helps Barbara rediscover her voice and her identity.… (altro)
A rather pathetic memoir of a privileged woman refusing to take responsibility for her own life and her dependence on psychiatric malpractice. An easy read because one can skip pages without losing anything meaningful.
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Barbara's story is fascinating. I found I couldn't put the book down.
Barbara Gordon, a documentary producer finds herself addicted to Valium. The decision to just stop taking them cold turkey, causes such nuerosis in Barbara's mind. To watch the downfall of her entire life happen in a few short weeks, and then the many years it takes to rebuild everything. The woman is strong.
Barbara Gordon, a documentary producer finds herself addicted to Valium. The decision to just stop taking them cold turkey, causes such nuerosis in Barbara's mind. To watch the downfall of her entire life happen in a few short weeks, and then the many years it takes to rebuild everything. The woman is strong.
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- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 310
- Popolarità
- #76,069
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 53
- Lingue
- 9
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she is ambiguous about mental hopitals and treatment. she finally got a psychiatrist she trusted bit many other patients had bad ones.
in my 30s i read snakepit and i never promised you a rose garden. i wanted to read dancing but it wasn't available. my mother didn't hate mental hospitals. she admitted herself many times.