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Mental illness Treatment Mentally ill Mentally ill Biography Psychiatric hospital patients Psychiatric hospital patients Biography Psychiatric hospital patients Drama Psychiatric hospitals Psychotherapy patients Biography Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.) History Young adult fictionSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONESummary: Beatrice is a motor-mouthed fantasist, a self-styled billionaire countess who likes to believe she's on intimate terms with world leaders. Donatella is a tattooed introvert, a fragile young woman locked in her own mystery. The film tells the story of the unpredictable and moving friendship that develops between the two women as they flee a mental institution in search of love and happiness in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIKPenney, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 PENHughes, Kathryn
Summary: 1956. It's Ellen Crosby's first day as a student nurse at Ambergate County Lunatic Asylum. When she meets a young woman committed by her father, and a pioneering physician keen to try out the various 'cures' for mental illness, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change all their lives for ever ... 2006. Sarah is drawn to the abandoned Ambergate Asylum. Whilst exploring the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Headline review, an imprint of Headline Publishing Group 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HugRoux, Madeleine
Summary: Ricky Desmond has been through all this before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn't belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ROUAviv, 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