psychiatric hospitals

Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.

Provides insights into American psychiatric care in the twentieth century through an examination of the contents of ten suitcases found in the attic of Willard Psychiatric Center in upstate New York, filled with patients' belongings, coupled with a look at the written record.

Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove is locked away in the Wildthorn Hall mental institution, where she is stripped of her identity and left to wonder who has tried to destroy her life.

Anna Bloom, confined to a mental hospital by her parents who do not know how to deal with her depression and panic attacks, writes letters to her best friend Tracy sharing the funny details of her life and the people she is getting to know at Lakeland.

America, a runaway boy who is being treated at Ridgeway, a New York hospital, finds himself opening up to one of the doctors on staff and revealing things about himself that he had always vowed to keep secret.

Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.

Hate, violence, and death climax the struggle for power between a patient in a mental institution and the head nurse.

A history of mental illness and its treatment in the United States, discussing what madness is, exploring what it is like to be mad, examining madness in the colonial era, chronicling the rise and fall of asylums, looking at the experiences of mad patients in asylums, and detailing the quest to find a therapeutic intervention that will restore sanity.

When his stepfather conspires to keep thirteen-year-old Peter at a mental institution, Peter begins to piece together secrets about his past with the help of his younger brother's strangely prophetic dreams.

Biography of social reformer Dorothea Dix and work for better care for the mentally ill.