TY - JOUR T1 - Stone Mother JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 527 LP - 527 DO - 10.3399/bjgp14X681961 VL - 64 IS - 627 AU - Emyr Gravell Y1 - 2014/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/64/627/527.2.abstract N2 - The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times Barbara Taylor Penguin, 2014 HB, 320pp, £18.99, 978-0241145098On a recent Friday afternoon I had a desperate phone call from a local vicar. He had no idea what to do with a patient he’d found weeping inconsolably in his empty church. I knew her well. Her life had caved in recently when some devastating family secrets had broken dramatically at the worst possible time triggering a breakdown which neither I nor several contacts with the Crisis Team had done anything to help. All I could say to the bewildered priest was that she really needed asylum — … ER -