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Gracefully insane : life and death inside America's premier mental hospital / Alex Beam.
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| Authors: |
Beam, Alex.
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| Call number: |
362.21 BEA |
| Publisher: |
New York : Public Affairs, c2001. |
| Publication date: |
c2001. |
| Subject: |
McLean Hospital -- History.
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| Title: |
Gracefully insane : life and death inside America's premier mental hospital / Alex Beam. |
| Physical description: |
273 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents note: |
A visit to the museum of the cures -- By the best people, for the best people -- The Mayflower screwballs -- The country clubbers -- The search for the cure -- The talk cure: Freud and man at McLean -- Welcome to the twentieth century -- The mad poets' society -- Staying on: the elders from planet Upham -- Diagnosis: "hippiephrenia" -- Physician, heal thyself -- Life goes on. |
| Biography note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
1586481614 (pbk.)
9781586481612 (pbk.) |
| Url for this record: |
http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1407818
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| Bib No.: |
1407818 |
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