false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182531436m/1289590.jpg 1289590 2 <div><div>Day after day, night after night, desperate men come to sit in the black chair next to Charles Barber&#8217;s desk in a basement office at Bellevue and tell of their travails, of prison and disease, of violence and the voices that plague them. Between the stories, amid the peeling paint, musty odor, and flickering fluorescent light of his office, Barber observes that this isn&#8217;t really where he is supposed to be and reveals his privileged youth in contrast to his own nightmare of mental illness. By relating these troubled lives to his own, Barber illuminates some of the most disturbing and enduring truths of human nature.</div></div> 824753 2005 Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors (American Lives) total:15|5:5|4:5|3:5| 15 60 35 6 4 0 false false Wed May 13 14:40:55 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 14:40:55 -0700 2009 Monk), in movies (the multiple phobias and disorders in What About Bob?) or even in classic literary works (th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 11 07:38:56 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 10:28:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 11 09:29:18 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 09:29:45 -0800 2008 Songs from the Black Chair has a subtitle of “A Memoir of Mental Interiors.” This is extremely accurate, and very well done. Barber shows with exquisite detail his experiences with OCD as well as others’ experiences that he has observed as a psychologist. The first half of the book deals wi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 05 14:51:42 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 14:51:42 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jul 25 19:35:26 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 07:26:41 -0700 2007 Look for his next book, "Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Medicated a Nation." It's another great one.]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 26 07:34:08 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 07:35:15 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Sep 15 19:48:13 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 19:48:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 12 09:52:26 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 09:52:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 23 22:39:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 22:39:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 05 20:29:42 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 20:29:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 18 18:37:53 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 18:37:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 07 14:12:40 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 14:12:40 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Dec 29 16:02:33 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 16:02:35 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Dec 18 20:28:58 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 20:29:08 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Sep 03 07:26:01 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 07:26:01 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Aug 25 15:18:25 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 15:18:25 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri Aug 22 20:16:14 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 20:16:14 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jul 23 11:53:10 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 11:53:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jun 27 15:37:25 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 17:10:51 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jun 14 05:33:20 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 05:33:20 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1289590