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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. ... But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding: a heavily-medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems-from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs. Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider among outsiders) and has forever fought to find a place to...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"There was a huge public outpouring to the ... articles in The New York Times about Family Foundation School, a last-resort institution for troubled teens in upstate New York. It described the near 50% death rate of alumni--including many by suicide--and how the survivors lived with their trauma in the years after leaving the school. A follow-up piece ... covered the shocking facts that came to light through multiple lawsuits and the continuing fight...
Author
Series
Research publication volume no. 786
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (various pagings)
Language
English
Author
Series
Research publication volume no. 769
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (82 pages)
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the adventures of a free-spirited mental ward inmate whose rebelliousness pits him against the repressive head nurse, and whose charm wins him the loyalty of his fellow inmates.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious women's asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories-and even more perilously, her sanity-in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. "I didn't see her the day she came to the asylum. Looking back, this sometimes strikes me as unlikely. Impossible, even, given how utterly her arrival...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Family History
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How can you trace forebears who were patients in lunatic asylums and find out about their lives? What sources can you consult to discover their personal histories and gain an insight into their experiences? In this ... handbook, Michelle Higgs ... provides [an] ... introduction to the subject and gives readers the means to explore the records for themselves. She concentrates on the period from the eighteenth century through to 1948 when the National...
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