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Briefing for a Descent Into Hell

by Doris Lessing · 1971

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A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad." Professor Charles Watkins of Cambridge University is a patient at a mental hospital where the doctors try with increasing drugs to bring his mind under control. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous psychological adventure where, after spinning endlessly on a raft in the Atlantic, he lands on a tropical island inhabited by strange creatures with strange customs. Later, he is carried off on a cosmic journey into space...

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mental healthmental healthMore like thisLess of thispsychologicalpsychologicalMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 278 pages

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