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Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental
- Genre
- HISTORY
- ISBN
- 9781586481612
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Gracefully Insane: the Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
- Item Height
- 141 mm
- Publisher
- Publicaffairs,U.S.
- Subject
- Medicine, Healthcare System
- Item Weight
- 354 g
- Item Width
- 208 mm
- Number of Pages
- 296 Pages
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Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean alumni include Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles, as well as (more secretly) other notables from among the rich and famous. In its golden age, McLean provided as genteel an environment for the treatment of mental illness as one could imagine. But the golden age is over, and a downsized, downscale McLean-despite its affiliation with Harvard University-is struggling to stay afloat. Gracefully Insane , by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today. It is filled with stories about patients and doctors: the Ralph Waldo Emerson protege whose brilliance disappeared along with his madness Anne Sexton's poetry seminar, and many more. The story of McLean is also the story of the hopes and failures of psychology and psychotherapy of the evolution of attitudes about mental illness, of approaches to treatment, and of the economic pressures that are making McLean-and other institutions like it-relics of a bygone age. This is a compelling and often oddly poignant reading for fans of books like Plath's The Bell Jar and Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted (both inspired by their author's stays at McLean) and for anyone interested in the history of medicine or psychotherapy, or the social history of New England.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Publicaffairs,U.S.
ISBN-13
9781586481612
eBay Product ID (ePID)
87294985
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Gracefully Insane: the Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
Publication Year
2003
Subject
Medicine, Healthcare System
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
141 mm
Item Weight
354 g
Item Width
208 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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