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At the age of fifteen, Daphne Scholinski was put in a mental hospital for what her psychiatrist called ?failure to identity as a sexual female.' The hospital gave her a diagnosis that was brand-new to the medical books: Gender Identity Disorder. The years that should have been Daphne's typical high school experience instead consisted of periods of seclusion and physical restraint, frequent does of sedatives, and the close company of people who were truly crazy.It's hard to believe that doctors, circa 1981, described Daphne's treatment goals as becoming more obsessive about boys, learning about makeup, dressing more like a girl, curling and styling hair, and spending quality time learning about girl things with peers. Even now, after a decade and a half of our culture's coming to grips with homosexuality, approximately fifty thousand teenagers are institutionalized in the U.S. each year for being too sissy or too much of a tomboy.Though the facts are truly frightening, Jane Meredith Adams has captured Daphne's fresh, funny, triumphant voice so vividly that The Last Time I Wore a Dress is impossible to put down. The result is a book is reminiscent of The Catcher in the Rye and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as well as an expose of a shameful medical sham that has destroyed countless childhoods.
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This patient's-eye view of life in a psychiatric hospital in the 1980s draws on the techniques of Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted but offers an original perspective on the dubious diagnosis Scholinski was given: Gender Identity Disorder. With a depressed mother and a father traumatized by service in Vietnam, Scholinski had an adolescence marked by physical and emotional abuse at home, teasing by schoolmates about her tomboyish appearance, and sexual molestation by strangers and others in positions of authority. She was turned over to the care of a mental hospital by parents who could not handle her minor acts of juvenile delinquency. Faced with the challenge of diagnosing her problems, doctors at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago decided the short-haired, ripped-jeans-and-rock-T-shirt-attired Scholinski was not ""feminine"" enough. When she became close friends with a new girl on the ward, she was accused of lesbianism. Thus she spent her high-school years locked up and marooned among the delusional, the suicidal, and the schizophrenic, being given ""girly lessons"" in makeup, dress, flirting, and other feminine skills. Former Boston Globe reporter Adams helps create an intimate narrative wherein the complex, ironic voice of the misunderstood young woman takes center stage (speaking of the $1 million price tag of her three-year treatment and her roommate's makeup lesons, Scholinski writes, ""For the price, I would have thought they'd bring in someone really good, maybe Vidal Sassoon""). The reprinting of institutional evaluative documents, É la Kaysen, provides effective context for the author's retellings of the hospital experience. Scholinski is now a San Francisco artist and activist who, though she continues to struggle with depression, is free to dress and wear her hair and choose her partners as she wishes. A notable book. Scholinski is a pychiatric memoirist with a powerful voice and a mission: to debunk doctors who continue to diagnose gender identity disorders. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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Unloved by either parent, Scholinski found little comfort in school or on the streets of Chicago, where she was taunted and abused for being a tomboy. In the early 1980s, Scholinski joined a street gang, engaged in sex with manipulative adults, got in all kinds of trouble in school, and enraged both of her divorced parents with her unfeminine behavior. Their solution? Institutionalization. At 15, Scholinski, perfectly sane, was locked up in a mental hospital; her "illness," something called Gender Identity Disorder. Her affront to society--dressing and acting more like a boy than like a girl--and her perfectly justified depression, cost her three years of her life. Her open and generous account, written with the assistance of journalist Adams, has the draw of a taut, psychological thriller but the cutting edge of tragic truth. Scholinski has since become an artist and activist, telling her story on 20/20 and offering gay and lesbian teenagers hope and guidance. A happy ending? Yes, although she still has nightmares. (Reviewed October 15, 1997)1573220779Donna Seaman