psychiatric hospitals

New York City teenager Craig Gilner succumbs to academic and social pressures at an elite high school and enters a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide.

Describes the terrible conditions in which patients lived at eleven now-defunct mental hospitals around the world, and presents details on reported hauntings at these facilities.

New York City teenager Craig Gilner succumbs to academic and social pressures at an elite high school and enters a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide.

While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.

When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occurring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives.

The struggle for power between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution leads to a climax of hate, violence, and death.

A fortieth anniversary edition of the novel that chronicles the power struggle between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution, with illustrations, and an introduction by the author.

After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.