![]() ![]() In Her Name Was Margaret, Denise Davy provides a human face to the complex issues of homelessness and psychiatric and supportive care for the mentally ill. Worse still, up to 70% of those homeless in Canada are suffering from some form of mental illness, and many end up incarcerated at one time or another. Davy notes that the homeless population in Canada is estimated to be approximately 235,000 each year, some 35.000 of whom are sleeping on the streets. Similar to America’s move in the mid-twentieth century toward the deinstitutionalization of those with significant mental health issues, Canadian journalist and author Denise Davy chronicles her country’s efforts to do the same in the heartbreaking biography of Margaret Louise Jacobson. This review was originally published on Story Circle Networks here. Davy details the tragedies that befell Margaret to exemplify the grave impact of deinstitutionalization. Jacobson spent the rest of her short-lived life bouncing in and out of the psychiatric hospital, numerous boarding houses, a variety of different shelters, and thousands of nights on the streets of Hamilton, Ontario. Following her commitment to a psychiatric hospital and a diagnosis of schizophrenia, Ms. ![]() ![]() Synopsis: Her Name Was Margaret tracks the difficult life and devolvement of Margaret Louise Jacobson, a once religiously devoted and musically talented young girl who suffered a psychotic break as a teenager. Genre: Biographies of persons with disabilities Women’s biographies ![]()
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