The Hillside Diary and Other Writings
 By Robert Gary Neugeboren
Edited and with an introduction by Jay Neugeboren
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It was 1962 and Robert Neugeboren, just shy of his nineteenth birthday, experienced the first of what would be many psychiatric hospitalizations. For the first six months of this first hospitalization, Robert kept a diary of his daily life at Hillside Hospital.
The Hillside Diary and Other Writings includes this diary, and selected letters and poems written by Robert over a period of many years and many hospitalizations. Compiled and edited by Jay Neugeboren, Robert’s brother and life-long advocate, the book also includes family photographs, and selected reproductions of Robert’s drawings, diary, poems, and letters.
Robert's story was first told in Imagining Robert, an award-winning book written by his brother Jay, and a documentary film of the same title that aired nationally on PBS in 2004. The Hillside Diary and Other Writings tells Robert’s story through his own words. This first person account gives a vivid, personal perspective of psychiatric treatment over the years—more importantly, it provides an intimate and honest portrayal of one person’s, and one family’s, tenacious struggle to reach beyond the anguish and frustrations of living with mental illness.
THE HILLSIDE DIARY gives a gift to those of us who seek to better understand—Wally Lamb, author of I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE
A valuable addition to the growing body of first person psychiatric accounts—Joanne Greenberg, author of
I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN
Through these writings we begin to understand how Robert survived: he had hope, he had dreams, he loved, and he was loved. His humor, intellect, love of life, and resilience shine through his writing.
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©2004, softcover 208 pages, ISBN: 1-878512-15-3
Neugeboren, R.G. (2004). The Hillside Diary and Other Writings. Boston: Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
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