The lives they left behind suitcases from a state hospital attic $c Darby Penney and Peter Stastny ; with photographs by Lisa Rinzler.

The lives they left behind suitcases from a state hospital attic $c Darby Penney and Peter Stastny ; with photographs by Lisa Rinzler.

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More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients' belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. They are skillfully examined here and compared to the written record to create a movingand devastatinggroup portrait of twentieth-c...

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Main Author: Penney, Darby
Other Authors: Stastny, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.) > History.
Psychiatric hospitals > New York (State) > New York > History.
Psychiatric hospital patients > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Full text (Emerson users only)
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Summary:More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients' belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. They are skillfully examined here and compared to the written record to create a movingand devastatinggroup portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages)
ISBN:9781934137239
1934137235
1282488627
9781282488625
9786612488627
661248862X

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