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Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum / by Hylton, Antonia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."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 history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity. Hylton also grapples with her own family's experiences with mental illness, and the secrecy and shame that it reproduced for generations. As Crownsville Hospital grew from an antebellum-style work camp to a tiny city sitting on 1,500 acres, the institution became a microcosm of America's evolving battles over slavery, racial integration, and civil rights. During its peak years, the hospital's wards were overflowing with almost 2,700 patients. By the end of the 20th-century, the asylum faded from view as prisons and jails became America's new focus. In Madness, Hylton traces the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current mental healthcare system. It is a captivating and heartbreaking meditation on how America decides who is sick or criminal, and who is worthy of our care or irredeemable"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Crownsville State Hospital; African Americans; African Americans; Mentally ill; Psychiatric hospitals; Racism in medicine.;
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Ward D / by McFadden, Freida,author.;
"Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger. Amy's worst nightmare was spending the night on Ward D. And now she might never escape"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Hospital wards; Missing persons; Psychiatric hospital care; Women medical students;
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Salt green death [graphic novel] / by Thorsen, Katarina,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.The documented experiences of Joseph O'Dwyer, a young man who was institutionalized at one of Canada's most notorious historic psychiatric institutions.
Subjects: Biographical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Graphic novels.; Creative nonfiction.; Graphic medicine (Comics); Historical comics.; O'Dwyer, Joseph; O'Dwyer, Joseph; O'Dwyer, Joseph; Psychiatric hospital care; Psychiatric hospital patients; Psychiatric hospital patients;
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American horror story. [videorecording] / by Britton, Connie.; Falchuk, Brad.; Farmiga, Taissa.; Lange, Jessica.; McDermott, Dylan.; Murphy, Ryan.; Peters, Evan,1987-; FX Networks, LLC.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Disc 1. Welcome to Briarcliff -- Tricks and treats -- Nor'easter.Disc 2. I am Anne Frank, part 1 -- I am Anne Frank, part 2 -- The origins of monstrosity -- Dark cousin.Disc 3. Unholy night -- The coat hanger -- The name game -- Spilt milk.Disc 4. Continuum -- Madness Ends.Jessica Lange, Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, Evan Peters, Taissa Farmiga.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 known as Bloody Face.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation, Dolby digital 5.1, dual-layer format, NTSC, region 1.
Subjects: Asylums; Demoniac possession; Families; Horror television programs.; Human-alien encounters; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychiatrists; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2013., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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The woman in white / by Collins, Wilkie,1824-1889,author.; Sutherland, John,1938-editor,writer of introduction.;
Includes bibliographical references.Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, & international intrigue. In this new edition, John Sutherland examines Collins's contribution to Victorian fiction, traces his practices as a creator of plot, & provides a chronology of the novel's complicated events.
Subjects: Gothic fiction.; Romance fiction.; Mentally ill; Psychiatric hospital patients; Young women; Inheritance and succession; Swindlers and swindling; Fraud; Sisters;
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The forgotten letters of Esther Durrant / by Nunn, Kayte,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon surprisingly becomes her refuge. 2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. When a violent storm forces her to take shelter on a far-flung island, she discovers a collection of hidden love letters. Captivated by their passion and tenderness, Rachel determines to track down the intended recipient. But she has no idea of the far-reaching consequences her decision will bring. Meanwhile, in London, Eve is helping her grandmother, a renowned mountaineer, write her memoirs. When she is contacted by Rachel, it sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to reveal secrets kept buried for more than sixty years.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Grandmothers; Islands; Love-letters; Nineteen fifties; Psychiatric hospital patients; Reminiscing in old age; Secrecy; Women marine scientists; Women;
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Poppet / by Hayder, Mo.;
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Caffery is called in when the staff at a mental hospital realize that a recently released patient is connected to a series of unexplained episodes of self-harm among the ward's patients.; Caffery, Jack (Fictitious character); Psychiatric hospital patients; Mentally ill; Police;
© c2013., HarperCollins,
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The devil you know : stories of human cruelty and compassion / by Adshead, Gwen,author.; Horne, Eileen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Based on 30 years of experience working in prisons and secure psychiatric hospitals with people convicted of serious violent offences, internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Adshead presents an account of mental illness and the nature of evil in this compelling series of stories.
Subjects: Good and evil; Psychopaths;
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55 steps [videorecording] / by August, Bille,1948-film director.; Bonham Carter, Helena,1966-actor.; Bruce-Neary, Lesley,film producer.; Elsani, Anita,film producer.; Risher, Sara,film producer.; Rosin, Mark Bruce,film producer,screenwriter.; Swank, Hilary,actor.; Tambor, Jeffrey,1944-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Hilary Swank, Helena Bonham Carter, Jeffrey Tambor.Based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese, a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements/disturbing images.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Biographical films.; Reise, Eleanor; Patients; Psychotherapy patients; Female friendship;
For private home use only.
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Men have called her crazy : a memoir / by Tendler, Annamarie,author.;
Recounting her experience in a psychiatric hospital as well as pivotal moments in her life that preceded and followed, a popular artist, in this stunning literary self-portrait, examines the unreasonable expectations and pressures women face in the 21st century as well as the insidious ways men impact their lives.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Tendler, Annamarie; Psychotherapy patients; Self-esteem in women.; Women;
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