
Asylum
A story of self-obsession narrated by the point of view of a psychiatrist, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls ''the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.'' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly...
A story of self-obsession narrated by the point of view of a psychiatrist, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls ''the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.'' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly...