Title: The Pavilion of Crazy Children - Valérie Valère - book
Summary :
At thirteen, Valérie Valère was interned in the ward for mentally ill children of a large Parisian hospital. At fifteen, she wrote the story of this stay. Her book is not only a vision of the hospital world, of treatments for the mentally ill, the pathetic cry of a thirteen-year-old girl who, one day, refused all food: she becomes aware of the deep reasons that led her to the suicidal behavior that is anorexia. And her story is above all the story of a recovery.
