The Muse Asylum

Author : David Czuchlewski
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780142000601
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muse Asylum written by David Czuchlewski and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2002-03-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An ingeniously plotted postmodernist mystery. . . . David Czuchlewski writes with imagination, vision, and style.”—Joyce Carol Oates Who is Horace Jacob Little, and what is he trying to hide? Legend has is that not even his agent had met him, that they communicated via post office box. Horace Jacob Little had insisted on blank covers for all his books. . . . No one knew what he looked like or where he lived. . . . I used to imagine him: a death-row inmate, a mild-mannered accountant, a disfigured cripple. . . . He was none of these, as it turned out, nothing my imagination could conjure. Andrew Wallace, recent Princeton graduate and troubled genius, spends his days in the Overlook Psychiatric Institute—the Muse Asylum—writing about a dark conspiracy against him engineered by the elusive author Horace Jacob Little. When fellow classmate Jake Burnett, a novice reporter, arrives on the hospital grounds to visit Andrew, he learns that Andrew’s problems run much deeper than simple paranoia and obsession. Along with Lara Knowles, the girl they both love, they try to break through the shadows of the enigmatic Horace Jacob Little. Instead, they find themselves caught in a twisted game of reflections and reversals, where each seems to be pursuing the other—for love, for success, or for a far more sinister purpose. “[A] cleverly devised, sharply composed, entertaining and moving novel.”—The Wall Street Journal

Author : Troy Rondinone
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421432676
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Factories written by Troy Rondinone and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from fictional and real accounts, movies, personal interviews, and tours of mental hospitals both active and defunct, Rondinone uncovers a story at once familiar and bizarre, where reality meets fantasy in the foggy landscape of celluloid and pulp.

Author : Katy Darby
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 190549081X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whores' Asylum written by Katy Darby and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling, gothic debut sure to appeal to fans of Sarah Waters and Susanna Clarke. Oxford, 1887: Even as Victoria celebrates the fiftieth year of her reign, a stone's throw from the calm cloisters and college spires lies Jericho, a maze of seedy streets and ill-lit taverns, haunted by drunkards, thieves and the lowest sort of brazen female as ever lifted her petticoats. When Stephen Chapman, a brilliant young medical student, is persuaded to volunteer at a shelter devoted to reforming the fallen women of Oxford, his closest friend Edward feels a strange sense of dread. But even Edward - who already knows the devastating effect of falling in love with the wrong woman - cannot foresee the macabre and violent events that will unfold around them, or stop Diana, the woman who seems destined to drive them apart.

Author : Kevin Wright
Publisher : Kevin Wright
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lords of Asylum written by Kevin Wright and published by Kevin Wright. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waylaid in the wilds, they left him for dead... Sir Luther Slythe Krait is a bad man. He struggled to outrun his past, but vengeance is swift and relentless and rides on unceasing wings. Lord Pyotr Raachwald's son was slain in a ritual rife with black magic. His legacy lies shattered. His purpose ruined. And with the killer at large, all he has left, revenge, lingers just beyond reach. Plunged into a civil war, Sir Luther is compelled into the Gallow Lord's service. Can Sir Luther play him off against another power-mad lord long enough to unmask the truth behind the son's murder? Hunt down the killer? Bring him to justice? Or will he just die trying? Waylaid in the wilds, they left him for dead, just not dead enough... Lords of Asylum is Game of Thrones meets The Maltese Falcon. Find out why Arina from Rockstarlit Book Asylum Fantasy Book Blog says This book was a f**king masterpiece.'

Author : Claire E. Edington
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150173394X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Asylum written by Claire E. Edington and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which patients rarely left. She shows instead a society in which Vietnamese communities and families actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that strengthened the power of the colonial state, even as they also forced French experts to engage with local understandings of, and practices around, insanity. Beyond the Asylum reveals how psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the Vietnamese public debated both what it meant to be abnormal, as well as normal enough to return to social life, throughout the early twentieth century. Straddling the fields of colonial history, Southeast Asian studies and the history of medicine, Beyond the Asylum shifts our perspective from the institution itself to its relationship with the world beyond its walls. This world included not only psychiatrists and their patients, but also prosecutors and parents, neighbors and spirit mediums, as well as the police and local press. How each group interacted with the mentally ill, with each other, and sometimes in opposition to each other, helped decide the fate of those both in and outside the colonial asylum.

Author : Anne E. Parsons
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469640643
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Asylum to Prison written by Anne E. Parsons and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance. Focusing on Pennsylvania, the state that ran one of the largest mental health systems in the country, Parsons tracks how the lack of community-based services, a fear-based politics around mental illness, and the economics of institutions meant that closing mental hospitals fed a cycle of incarceration that became an epidemic. This groundbreaking book recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals and mental health policy making. In doing so, she offers critical insight into how the prison took the place of the asylum in crucial ways, shaping the rise of the prison industrial complex.

Author : Cristina Rivera Garza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806167237
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Castañeda Insane Asylum written by Cristina Rivera Garza and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Castañeda Insane Asylum is the first inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum--a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. It links life within the asylum's walls to the radical transformations brought about as Mexico entered the Revolution's armed phase and then endured under succeeding modernizing regimes. Author Cristina Rivera Garza brings the history of La Castañeda asylum to life as inmates, doctors, relatives, and others engage in dialogues on insanity. They discuss faith, sex, poverty, loss, resentment, envy, love, and politics. Doctors translated what they heard into the emerging language of psychiatry, while inmates conveyed their personal experiences and private histories through expressions of mental suffering. The language of pain--physical and spiritual, mild to excruciating--allowed patients to detail the sources and consequences of their misfortune. Available now for the first time in English, this edition contains updated sources and features a note by the translator, Laura Kanost.

Author : Susan Burch
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469663368
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Committed written by Susan Burch and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and confinement, including reservations, boarding schools, orphanages, and prison-hospitals. Despite the long reach of institutionalization for those forcibly held at the Asylum, the tenacity of relationships extended within and beyond institutional walls. In this accessible and innovative work, Susan Burch tells the story of the Indigenous people—families, communities, and nations, across generations to the present day—who have experienced the impact of this history.

Author : Alex Fox
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447341678
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Health and Care System written by Alex Fox and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines a new, human focussed model for public services – an approach focused on achieving and maintaining wellbeing, rather than on reacting to crisis or attempting to ‘fix’ people.

Author : Arlene F. Marks
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1770531114
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genius Asylum written by Arlene F. Marks and published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Intelligence and Space Installation Security each think Drew Townsend is working for them. They're wrongSent undercover to set up a covert intelligence operation on Earth's remotest space station, Drew Townsend finds himself managing a crew of brilliant mavericks, making friends with the most feared warriors in the galaxy, and feeling more at home in the controlled insanity of Daisy Hub than he ever did on Earth. Then he learns the truth about his mission there, and it's time to choose. In the coming interplanetary conflict, which side will Daisy Hub be on?