| Description |
1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword; prologue: life in the attic; 1. he took them on their last walk; 2. who went to willard and why did they go there?; 3. how i would have furnished my room (if not for the voices); 4. in permanent limbo; 5. children died and she knit her life away; 6. like a fly in a spider web; 7. how people were treated at willard; 8. a photographic talent; 9. a frequent visitor to the white house; 10. my blood temper ... resigned; 11. an itallian princess and a french intellectual; epilogue: is it better today?; sources consulted; acknowledgements; index |
| Summary |
More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients' belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. They are skillfully examined here and compared to the written record to create a movingand devastatinggroup portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stastny, Peter
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| ISBN |
9781934137239 |
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1934137235 |
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1282488627 |
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9781282488625 |
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9786612488627 |
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661248862X |
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