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The lives they left behind suitcases from a state hospital attic  Cover Image Book Book

The lives they left behind suitcases from a state hospital attic

Penney, Darby. (Author). Stastny, Peter. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781934137079 (hardcover) :
  • ISBN: 1934137073 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: book
    205 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-196) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: He took them on their last walk -- Who went to Willard and why did they go there? -- How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- Children died and she knit her life away -- Like a fly in a spider web -- How people were treated at Willard -- A photographic talent: rising above the fray -- A frequent visitor to the White House -- My blood temper...resigned -- An Italian princess and a French intellectual: two ways of fighting for freedom.
Subject: Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.). -- History
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Psychiatric hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history -- New York
History, 20th Century -- New York
Mental Disorders -- history -- New York
Patients -- New York

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at South Central Regional Library.

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Winkler Library 362.2 Pen (Text) 35864000427284 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -

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