Excerpts from: The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe; "On Behalf of the Insane Poor" by Dorothea Dix; Modern Per! ecution, or Insane Asylums Unveiled by Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard; Ten Days in a Mad-House, or Nellie BIy's Experiences on Blackwell's Island by Elizabeth Cochrane; "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman; "The Confessions of a Nervous Woman" (Anonymous); Letters by Zelda Fitzgerald; The Snake Pithy Mary Jane Ward; Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl by "Renee," Faces in the Water by Janet Frame; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath; The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston; The Loony-Bin Trip by Kate Millett; By Her Own Hand by Signe Hammer; Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen; SearchingforMercy Street by Linda Gray Sexton; The Beast by Tracy Thompson; "Black Swans" by Lauren Slater; Willow Weep for Me by Men Nana-Ama Danquah; "Isolation" by Martha Ellen Hughes; "Thorazine Shuffle" by Allie Light; "A Better Place to Live" by Maud Casey.
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