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    For Pete's Sake: A Son Reflects on His Father's Forty-Seven Year Confinement with Mental Illness
    For Pete's Sake: A Son Reflects on His Father's Forty-Seven Year Confinement with Mental Illness
    For Pete's Sake: A Son Reflects on His Father's Forty-Seven Year Confinement with Mental Illness
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    For Pete's Sake: A Son Reflects on His Father's Forty-Seven Year Confinement with Mental Illness

    By Gene Gilbreath

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    TLC?style='mso-spacerun:yes'> Tender loving care, remember?style='mso-spacerun:yes'> Tender loving care aboutstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> those in hospitals, nursing homes,
    mental facilities, schools, disconnected families, underprivileged children, an
    abandoned spouse, and all we who face
    our limitations and dont know where to turn?
    A Nigerian proverb says, Not to know is bad.style='mso-spacerun:yes'> Not to want to know is worse. Not to hope is
    unthinkable. Not to care is unforgiveable.



    Let me tell you about Pete, my
    Dad, so that you may know him. I wrote this book feeling that maybe you would
    want to know about this mental patient who spent forty-seven years in
    confinement. His life seemed worthless,
    of no value to society. After his death
    at eighty-seven, I thought again, this time with hope that there was a way to
    redeem his existence.



    FOR PETES SAKE helps class=GramE>you to become aware
    of mental health issues in our ordinary circumstances.style='mso-spacerun:yes'> From my g-g-grandparents conception, through
    our childhood and schooling in rural Sullivan County, Indiana, through the
    State hospital and nursing home experiences of Pete, through the triumph of my
    Mom, through questions of faith, purpose, and meaning, we learned to hope and
    care.



    Meet PETE as Rip Van Winkle II
    and learn, hope, and care about the mentally ill and their families.



    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateOct 2, 2003
    ISBN9781410744807
    For Pete's Sake: A Son Reflects on His Father's Forty-Seven Year Confinement with Mental Illness
    Author

    Gene Gilbreath

    Mr. Gilbreath is a native of rural Sullivan County, Indiana.  His early education was in the Graysville Consolidated School.  He attended Taylor University, 1948-1950.  In 1952 he received  a BA degree in  Sociology and Bible Studies from Evansville College, Evansville, Indiana.  His Master’s in Divinity was granted by Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, IL. in 1959.  In 1978 Mr. Gilbreath earned a Master’s in Counseling from Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN.  He served as Pastor of United Methodist Churches in southern Indiana for over thirty-five years before taking disability in 1984.  He is married to Jessie Neier-Gilbreath. Foutz of Sullivan County. 

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