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Author Beam, Alex.

Title Gracefully insane : the rise and fall of America's premier mental hospital / Alex Beam.

Publication Info. New York : Public Affairs, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  362.21 BEAM    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  362.2109 BEAM    DUE 09-19-02 Billed
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  362.21 BEA    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  362.21 BEAM    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  362.21 BEA    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  362.21 BEAM    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  362.2109 BEAM    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  362.21 BEAM    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  362.21 BE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: One A Visit to the Museum of the Cures x -- Two By the Best People, for the Best People 17 -- Three The Mayflower Screwballs 35 -- four The Country Clubbers 49 -- Five The Search for the Cure 73 -- Six The Talk Cure: Freud and Man at Mclean 93 -- Seven Welcome to the Twentieth Century 117 -- Eight The Mad Poets' Society I45 -- Nine Staying On: The Elders from Planet Upham I69 -- Ten Diagnosis: "Hippiephrenia" I9i -- Eleven Physician, Heal Thyself 217 -- Twelve Life Goes On 233.
Subject McLean Hospital -- History.
McLean Hospital.
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history -- Massachusetts.
ISBN 1891620754 hardback
1586481614 paperback
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