ABSTRACT
This poem offers a creative, artistic, and highly readable contribution to the literatures of women's studies and psychology. It explores women's first-person experiences with the mental health establishment. These artistic expressions of personal experience helps women understand their own encounters in a new light. It explains remember is being called into the principal's office with the school psychologist remember telling saying on paper what happened in the early morning sat her house on 1500 Munn Ave. An icon of feminist writing, the 1892 story symbolizes affirmation and validation for the female experience regarding mental health and therapy. It will also enlighten those in the helping professions as they extend their services to women in a time of growing need and shrinking resources.
