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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Gracefully Insane
    sub title: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
  title info:
    title: Gracefully Insane (Online)
  name:
    name part: Beam, Alex
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Alexander Street (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: PublicAffairs
    date issued: Jan. 2003
    publisher: Perseus Books Group [distributor]
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Annotation 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 institution-one 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 McLean-despite its affiliation with Harvard University-is 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 protégé 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 McLean-and other institutions like it-relics 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.
  target audience: Trade PublicAffairs.
  classification: RC439
  classification: 362.2/1/097444
  related item:
    title info:
      title: ProQuest One Psychology
    origin info:
      publisher: Proquest Info & Learning Co
  identifier: 1586481614
  identifier: 9781586481612
  identifier: 00137407
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: WYU
    record creation date: 020606
    record change date: 20250331202441.2
    record identifier: in00005637886
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng