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Author Penney, Darby.

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

Publication Info. New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2008.

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 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  362.21 PENNEY    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 205 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [190]-196) and index.
Contents He took them on their last walk -- Who went to Willard and why did they go there? -- How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- Children died and she knit her life away -- Like a fly in a spider web -- How people were treated at Willard -- A photographic talent: rising above the fray -- A frequent visitor to the White House -- My blood temper...resigned -- An Italian princess and a French intellectual: two ways of fighting for freedom.
He took them on their last walk -- Who were the people that went to Willard and why did they go there? -- How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor urned into the devil incarnate) -- Children were buried and she knit her life away -- Like a fly in a spider web -- What happened to the people during their stay at Willard and how were they treated? -- A photographic talent: rising above the fray -- A frequent visitor to the White House -- My blood temper...resigned -- An Italian princess and a French intellectual.
Subject Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.) -- History.
Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history -- New York.
History, 20th Century -- New York.
Mental Disorders -- history -- New York.
Patients -- New York.
Added Author Stastny, Peter.
ISBN 9781934137079 hardcover
1934137073 hardcover
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