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Bly, Nellie Foulds, Adam Moore, Kate Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller) Wiseman, Ellen MarieMoore, Kate
Summary: "1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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Summary: Beginning in the 1960s in the United States, scores of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat half of the patients that left the hospital. The combined effect was profoundly destructive. Today, among homeless persons, at least one-third are severely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 TORFoulds, Adam
Summary: It's 1837, and poet John Clare has been put in a mental institution outside London called High Beach. Soon another writer arrives on the scene-- one Alfred, Lord Tennyson-- and their lives become entwined with High Beach's strange owner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOUBly, Nellie
Summary: This is Bly's truly disturbing account (and exposé) of a mental asylum to which Bly was committed after feigning insanity. Including graphic depictions as to the treatment of mental patients and their unsanitary surroundings, Bly's controversial 1887 exposé reveals the scandal and brutality of mental health in the nineteenth century and the ease with which professionals were prepared to accept...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Empire Books] 1887
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Summary: Izzy Stone struggles to solve the mysteries surrounding her mentally ill mother and discover a place to truly call home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WISMoore, Kate
Summary: 1860: Elizabeth Packard's husband, Theophilus, feeling threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts, has her committed to an insane asylum. The conditions in the asylum are horrific. But most disturbing is that many other rational women have also been committed not because they need treatment, but were instead conveniently labeled "crazy" so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022