Books by Louise Armstrong and Complete Book Reviews

And They Call It Help: The Psychiatric Policing of America's Children
And They Call It Help: The Psychiatric Policing of America's Children
Louise Armstrong, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $22.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-201-57794-5
Tangled up in her rage and maddeningly complex sentences, the author develops a valuable expose of the fate of many children and adolescents assigned to psychiatric hospitals and mental health treatment centers in the U.S. Although Armstrong ( Kiss...
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Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics: What Happened When Women Said Incest
Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics: What Happened When Women Said Incest
Louise Armstrong, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $24.66 (305p) ISBN 978-0-201-62471-7
Herself an incest survivor, Armstrong was one of the first to bring this previously invisible problem to national attention with her 1978 book, Kiss Daddy Goodnight. Here, she traces the history of public response to the ``outing'' of incest over...
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Solomon Says: A Speakout on Foster Care
Solomon Says: A Speakout on Foster Care
Louise Armstrong, Author Pocket Books $8.94 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-65782-6
The title refers to King Solomon, who studied the characters of two pk would-be mothers feuding over a baby in order to decide which womanpk would serve the child's best interests. Armstrong ( Kiss Daddy Goodnight ) contrasts this with the present...
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