Summary: Step inside 'the Castle,' a large private psychiatric facility. Here, Dr. Stewart McIver devotes night and day to his profession while neglecting his pining, voluptuous wife. A colleague with a fondness for booze and a pretty face seeks to comfort the wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COB

Summary: For one special security guard, tracking people down is a paranormal sort of hobby. Able to use his rare abilities to find people, David Dunn is suddenly given a job that seems more daunting than all the others before it. He'll need to find Kevin Wendell Crumb, and time is of the essence. But part of the problem is that Crumb is an extremely disturbed man and with 24 personalities, he's a lot...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GLA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Glass 2019

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3 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER GLA

Summary: Step inside a madhouse of horror and experience the chilling new incarnation of TV's most daringly provocative series. The sins of the past haunt the present at the notorious Briarcliff home for the criminally insane, ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude. Forbidden desire and terrifying evil lurk around every corner, from alien abduction to demonic possession to a skin-wearing psychopath...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AME

Summary: A psychiatric nurse begins to question the line between fantasy and reality when he begins to lose his own sanity while working at a mental health facility in the Blue Mountains of Australia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WAK

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

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

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

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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

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 STE
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 362.2 STE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 STE

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

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 362.21 DEC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 362.21 DEC

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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

Summary: 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

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIK