Looking for recommendations on mental asylums fiction or none fiction please
Looking for recommendations on mental asylums fiction or none fiction please
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Looking for recommendations on mental asylums fiction or none fiction please
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The minds of Billy Milligan
The Snake Pit
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
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Girl, interrupted? It’s not just a film it’s a novel
Second this one. Great book!
Great guys thank you
The Quiet Room best book I’ve read on mental illness from the perspective of someone with scizophrenia
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath for fiction
The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn Saks for nonfiction
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Great book!
Love this book!
Great book
The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn Saks
Ten Days in a Mad House ~ Nellie Bly ?
The Shock of the Fall
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The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.
Great book
The Ballroom by Anna Hope
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A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale has one. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood also has.
The White House
Totally off topic: My sister’s name is spelled the same way. Aside from hers, I’ve never seen it. Nice.
Sorry, I have to dig at Trump whenever I can sneak it in
No, no. No comment on the statement. My sister’s name is spelled Sherron. I’ve never seen another Sharon/Sherron. That was my only point. And I have a similar view of DT. Our parents were spelling names differently way back when as you might see from the spelling of my name. Yes. The White House is insane.
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Veronika decides to die – Paulo Coelho
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey – a classic
The bell jar
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“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, by Ken Kesey. “Ten Days In a Mad-House”, by Nellie Bly. “Broadmoor Revealed”, by Mark Stevens.
I never promised you a rose garden.
Saving Max by Antionette van Heugten is great!
A Placed Called Winter by Patrick Gale kinda does, but the majority of the book is about his past and farming in the 1900s.
Annie’s Ghosts, true personal story about a family and Eloise Hospital in Detroit. Excellent
I’ve seen this mentioned a couple times. Who is the author?
Sorry…Steve Luxenberg. I’m from Detroit and my book club read it a couple years ago and loved it. It generated great discussions on mental illness.
Shutter island
Big second for Shutter Island, book and movie!
One of my all-time favorite books and movies!
Charlotte Gillman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and Nellie Bly’s Ten Days In A Madhouse
Love The Yellow Wallpaper!
The Program by Suzanne Young
What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
It was haunting.
I agree, very good
Shutter Island
Veronika decides to die by paulo coelho
The dead house by Dawn Kurtigitch May have spelt her last name wrong. If you can get it on audio it was the best audio book I have listened to
Girl interrupted or; Bell Jar
Ten days in a mad house!!!!!!
Old, old book…The Snake Pit
What She Left Behind, one of my favorite books.
There are a couple of books about Frances FArmer, she was a 1940s/50s up and coming actress. She defied the toe the line film and studio bosses of the time. She may have been bipolar, and could have probably been diagnosed with a couple of other things we know today–but who knows her narcissistic mom fast tracked her to the state mental hospital in Washington State. In the hospital they practiced the latest, miracle cure sweeping the nation at that time called a “lobotomy”, which was supposed to remove erratic and distructive behavior, and turn the patient into a docile, agreeable space cadet.
I saw a movie based on that story! It was so sad!
For nonfiction, An Angel at My Table, by Jane Campion.
The Ballroom
One Flew Over The Cookoos Nest
Girl Interrupted
……setting is McLean of Harvard……
Anna Kavan is a startlingly good writer on and around this subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kavan
Guests on Earth by Lee Smith
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Awakenings
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Girl, Interrupted
I also just Googled and found this 🙂 https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/insane-asylum
What she left behind by Ellen Marie wiseman.
The Snake Pit, Mary Jane Ward
This was a very good book!
Shutter Island.
Blindness by Jose Saramago– not the main theme, but part of the plot line.
The Asylum – Johan Theorin
The Ballroom by Anna Hope early 1900s.
The asylum series by madeline roux
“It’s kind of a funny story”
Asylum by Patrick Mcgrath
My Lobotomy.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret
My Lobotomy Howard Dully
If you find this one its a classic I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
by Hannah Green.
Have you read the short story The Yellow Wallpaper? It was so disturbing.
What she left behind. One of my all time faves. Also not on an institution but a memoir on bipolar. An unquiet mind.
Asylums by Erving Goffman, published in 1961 — a classic in sociology.
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.
Affinity, by Sarah Waters
Great book!
The Centre Cannot Hold (My Journey Through Madness) by Elyn Saks
The Professor and the Mad Man.
I really enjoyed this book!
What she left behind!! Such a great book!
What She Left Behind
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
What She Left Behind
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Following
Shutter island, rocks???
The lives they left behind: suitcases from a mental asylum attic. This is fascinating and written after suitcases were found in the attic of Willard state hospital when it was shut down. By Penny and Lehmann
Current release: My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward, by Mark Lukach
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Shutter Island
Shutter Island. If you like radical plot twists.
What She Left Behind
Women and Madness.
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Did you the memoir on the Kennedy daughter? Written by the niece of the nurse who cared for her
Try “Church of Marvels” Leslie Parry, two women find a way out of”Blackwells lunatic Asylum”. Awesome ????
But Inside I’m Screaming by Elizabeth Flock. she’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb. part of Malice by Sanielle Steel.