Penney, Darby.

Summary: Foreword / Robert Whitaker -- 1. He took them on their last walk -- 2. Who were the people that 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: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- 5. Children were buried and she knit her life away -- 6. Like a fly in a spider...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2009

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Steele, Earle E

Summary: From horse-drawn wagon rides to school through five decades of tending majestic trees at the gothic Traverse City State Hospital, Earle Steele colorfully and compassionately shares tales of life and how it was lived at The Asylum, a city-within-a-city that once housed 3000 mentally ill patients.Steele's first affiliation with the hospital was at age nine when his father began employment at the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Denali 2001

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Summary: A history of the Newberry, Michigan State Hospital with William A. Decker, M.D., DLFAPA Luce County Historical Society, June 27, 2009.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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Gold, Hayley

Summary: Gold's memoir about disordered eating, chronic illness, and a profound relationship with hope.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2023

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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 1989

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Summary: Dr. William A. Decker, psychiatrist and the last medical supervisor of the Kalamazoo State Hospital, presents a history of the institution which opened its doors in 1848 in order to provide a humane way of treating the mentally ill.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Johnson, Heidi.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001

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Johnson, Heidi.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004

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Payne, Christopher

Summary: "For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas...

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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2009

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Decker, William A.

Contents: Construction of the asylum (Building 50) -- The colony system (cottages) -- Mental health statutes -- Governance -- Administrative support services -- Additions and improvements to the asylum -- Farming operations -- Non-patient buildings -- Employee living quarters -- Closing of the hospital : divesiture, demolition, preservation, and restoration -- Causes of mental illness(es) -- Treatment...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2010

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LeClaire, Virginia M

Summary: This volume tells the story of the Traverse City State Hospital Training School for Nurses. The doors opened in 1906 and were closed in 1947. Over four hundred students graduated from this institution. You will meet them and the families from which they came. You will also witness the effects of the political and health concerns of the days on their lives, and learn about the various paths they...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000

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Annett, Bruce J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oakland County Pioneer & Historical Society 2002

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Yanni, Carla.

Summary: Illustrated throughout, Yanni offers a fresh and original look at the American medical establishment's century-long preoccupation with therapeutic architecture as a way to cure social ills.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2007

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Segrest, Mab

Summary: "A look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020

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Taylor, Barbara

Summary: In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor’s world contracted around her illness. Eventually, her struggles were severe enough to lead to her admission to what had once been England’s largest psychiatric institution, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in North London. The Last Asylum is Taylor’s...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2015

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Bly, 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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Horn, Stacy

Summary: "It's now known as New York City's Roosevelt Island. Originally called Blackwell's Island, it housed a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse and almshouse in the 19th century. This book re-creates what daily life was like on the island, what politics shaped it, and what constituted therapy and charity in the nineteenth century"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018

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Aviv, Rachel

Summary: In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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