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Author Rondinone, Troy, 1973- author.

Title Nightmare factories : the asylum in the American imagination / Troy Rondinone.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Chapter 1. The enchanter's castle -- Chapter 2. Woman in white, angel in black -- Chapter 3. Monsters of the asylum -- Chapter 4. Freudian rescues -- Chapter 5. The dawning age of paranoia -- Chapter 6. They're coming to take you away -- Chapter 7. The asylum next door -- Chapter 8. Asylums don't work -- Chapter 9. Breakout -- Chapter 10. Standardization -- Chapter 11. Return of the Gothic -- Epilogue. Real horrors.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 13, 2019).
Subject Asylums -- United States -- History.
Psychiatric hospitals -- United States -- History.
Hospitals, Psychiatric.
Asylums. (OCoLC)fst00819857
Psychiatric hospitals. (OCoLC)fst01081047
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Heim.
Irrenanstalt.
Psychiatrische Abteilung.
Psychiatrische Klinik.
United States.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Rondinone, Troy, 1973- Nightmare factories. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019 9781421432670 (DLC) 2018059343 (OCoLC)1080554445
ISBN 9781421432687 (electronic book)
1421432684 (electronic book)
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