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Powers, Ron

Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 POW

Decker, William A.

Summary: Interviews by William A. Decker, M.D. ; Reverend James Brammer, TCSH Chaplain ; Shirley Rogers, TCSH Nursing Department ; Ms. Mini Minervini, Administrator of Village Commons.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 NOR

Decker, William A.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 NOR

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 HIS
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 HIS

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2010

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 DEC

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Oversize, Call number: 362.21 DEC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local Decker

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 362.21 DEC
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 362.21 DEC

Whitaker, Robert.

Contents: pt. 1. Original Bedlam (1750-1900). 1. Bedlam in medicine -- 2. Healing hand of kindness -- pt. 2. Darkest era (1900-1950). 3. Unfit to breed -- 4. Too much intelligence -- 5. Brain damage as miracle therapy -- pt. 3. Back to Bedlam (1950-1990s). 6. Modern-day alchemy -- 7. Patients' reality -- 8. Story we told ourselves -- 9. Shame of a nation -- 10. Nuremberg Code doesn't apply here -- pt. 4....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 WHI

Hylton, Antonia

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 HYL

Pratt, Misty

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Summary: "Why are so many women feeling anxious, stressed out, and depressed, and why are they not getting the help they need? Over the past decade, mood disorders have skyrocketed among women, who are twice as likely to be diagnosed as men. Yet in a healthcare system steeped in gender bias, women's complaints are often dismissed, their normal emotions are pathologized, and treatments routinely fail to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2024

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Tweedy, Damon

Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine As much as we all might wish that mental health problems, with their elusive causes and unsettling behaviors, simply did not exist, millions of people suffer from them, sometimes to an extreme extent. Many others...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024

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Gong, Neil

Summary: "In 2022, Los Angeles became the US city with the largest population of unhoused people, a stark contrast with the city's luxurious hillside mansions. This book from sociologist Neil Gong traces the divide between the haves and have nots by looking to mental health treatment, a key factor in what kind of life a person can live. As Gong shows, the mental health options available to the wealthy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2086 GON

Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller)

Summary: In 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered an historic speech on mental illness and retardation. He described sweeping new programs to replace "the shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled in custodial institutions" with treatment in community mental health centers. This movement, later referred to as "deinstitutionalization," continues to impact mental health care....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 TOR

Mueller, Anna S.

Summary: "During her junior year at Poplar Grove High School, Aria found herself sliding into a worsening depression. She had what she described as the perfect life, including fabulous vacations, her dream car, and more importantly, a big loving family, close friends, and a boyfriend she adored, but daily life had become unbearable. Though she knew how badly her suicide would hurt everyone around her,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 MUE

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