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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic

by Darby Penney, Peter Stastny

3.5

2008 Β· 206 pages

About The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic

Foreword / Robert Whitaker -- 1. He took them on their last walk -- 2. Who were the people that went to Willard and why did they go there? --3. How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- 4. In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- 5. Children were buried and she knit her life away -- 6. Like a fly in a spider web -- 7. How people were treated at Willard -- 8. A photographic talent: rising above the fray -- 9. A frequent visitor to the White House -- 10. My blood temper ... resigned -- 11. An Italian princess and a French intellectual: two ways of fighting for freedom -- Epilogue: Is it better today?.

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