psychiatric hospital patients

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psychiatric hospital patients

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

text and criticism
1996
Contains the complete text of the novel about the disastrous power struggle between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution, with writings by the author, literary criticism, excerpts from analogous works, and other reviews and essays.

Zelda Fitzgerald

the tragic, meticulously researched biography of the jazz age's high priestess
2012
Presents a biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, chronicling her marriage, artistic ambitions, and bouts with madness.

Shutter Island

2009
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule begin to fear for their own lives and sanity when their investigation on Shutter Island into how a patient escaped the Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane yields more questions than answers.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

2003
A rebel named Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to a mental ward and challenges the authority of its dictatorial head nurse. Includes line drawings by the author.

Girl, interrupted

1994
The author describes her two-year stay at a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele and for its progressive methods of treatment.

The professor and the madman

a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
1999
Explains how the "Oxford English Dictionary" was created and discusses the relationship between the editor and one of his most influential contributors, a psychotic murderer in one of England's cruelest asylums.

The professor and the madman

a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
2005
Explains how the "Oxford English Dictionary" was created and discusses the relationship between the editor and one of his most influential contributors, a psychotic murderer in one of England's cruelest asylums.

The professor and the madman

a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
1998
Explains how the "Oxford English Dictionary" was created and discusses the relationship between the editor and one of his most influential contributors, a psychotic murderer in one of England's cruelest asylums.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

1977
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.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

1963
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.

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