A triumphant memoir from a successful Wall Street financier who reveals in a first-ever insider account what it was like to grow up in the "most famous children's mental hospital in the world." Sent to live at Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School at the age of eight, Eliot found himself living among autistics and schizophrenics. However, instead of being trapped in a world of drugs and locked doors, Stephen and the other patients were exposed to staff that believed in helping.
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