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The lives they left behind : suitcases from a state hospital attic
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Title
The lives they left behind : suitcases from a state hospital attic / Darby Penney and Peter Stastny ; with photographs by Lisa Rinzler.
ISBN
9781934137079
1934137073
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2008.
Physical Description
205 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 04, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-196) and index.
Contents
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.
He took them on their last walk
Who were the people that 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 urned into the devil incarnate)
Children were buried and she knit her life away
Like a fly in a spider web
What happened to the people during their stay at Willard and how were they treated?
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Hospitals, Psychiatric - history - New York.
History, 20th Century - New York.
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