The Lives They Left Behind

The Lives They Left Behind
Author: Darby Penney
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1458765989


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More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients' belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. In this fully-illustrated social history, they are skillfully examined and compared to the written record to create a moving-and devastating-group portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.