Gracefully insane : the rise and fall of America's premier mental hospital / Alex Beam

By:

BEAM, Alex

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : PublicAffairs, c2001.Description: 273p. : ill. ; 21cmISBN:

978-1-58648-161-2

Subject(s):

McLean Hospital -- History. Psychiatric hospitals -- Massachusetts -- Belmont. McLean Hospital

DDC classification:

22nd ed. 362.21097444 BEA

Summary: Its carefully landscaped grounds, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with four-and-five-story Tudor mansions, could belong to a prosperous New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution - one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include many of the troubled geniuses of our age

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Its carefully landscaped grounds, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with four-and-five-story Tudor mansions, could belong to a prosperous New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution - one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include many of the troubled geniuses of our age

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