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Gracefully Insane: Life And Death Inside America'S Premier Mental Hospital
Delivery time: 8-12 business days (International)
Its Landscaped Ground, Chosen By Frederick Law Olmsted And Dotted With Tudor Mansions, Could Belong To A New England Prep School. There Are No Fences, No Guards, No Locked Gates. But Mclean Hospital Is A Mental Institutionone Of The Most Famous, Most Elite, And Once Most Luxurious In America. Mclean Alumni Include Olmsted Himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor And Ray Charles, As Well As (More Secretly) Other Notables From Among The Rich And Famous. In Its Golden Age, Mclean Provided As Genteel An Environment For The Treatment Of Mental Illness As One Could Imagine. But The Golden Age Is Over, And A Downsized, Downscale Mcleandespite Its Affiliation With Harvard Universityis Struggling To Stay Afloat. Gracefully Insane, By Boston Globe Columnist Alex Beam, Is A Fascinating And Emotional Biography Of Mclean Hospital From Its Founding In 1817 Through Today. It Is Filled With Stories About Patients And Doctors: The Ralph Waldo Emerson Prot'G' Whose Brilliance Disappeared Along With His Madness; Anne Sexton'S Poetry Seminar, And Many More. The Story Of Mclean Is Also The Story Of The Hopes And Failures Of Psychology And Psychotherapy; Of The Evolution Of Attitudes About Mental Illness, Of Approaches To Treatment, And Of The Economic Pressures That Are Making Mcleanand Other Institutions Like Itrelics Of A Bygone Age.This Is A Compelling And Often Oddly Poignant Reading For Fans Of Books Like Plath'S The Bell Jar And Susanna Kaysen'S Girl, Interrupted (Both Inspired By Their Author'S Stays At Mclean) And For Anyone Interested In The History Of Medicine Or Psychotherapy, Or The Social History Of New England.
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