The lives they left behind

• Verfasst von: Penney, Darby
• Titel: The lives they left behind
• Titelzusatz: suitcases from a state hospital attic
• Mitwirkende: Stastny, Peter
• Verf.angabe: Darby Penney and Peter Stastny
• Ausgabe: 1. ed. in paperback
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: Bellevue Literary Press
• Jahr: 2009
• Umfang: 205 S.
• Illustrationen: Ill.
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 978-1-934137-14-7
• Schlagwörter: (g)USA / (s)Stationäre psychiatrische Versorgung / (s)Patient
• Dokumenttyp: Fallstudiensammlung
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1623748763

Abstract

He took them on their last walk -- Who were the people that went to Willard and why did they go there? -- How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor urned into the devil incarnate) -- Children were buried and she knit her life away -- Like a fly in a spider web -- What happened to the people during their stay at Willard and how were they treated? -- A photographic talent: rising above the fray -- A frequent visitor to the White House -- My blood temper...resigned -- An Italian princess and a French intellectual