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Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital (udgave 2003)

af Alex Beam

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An entertaining and poignant social history of McLean Hospital--temporary home to many of the troubled geniuses of our age--and of the evolution of the treatment of mental illness from the early 19th century to today
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Titel:Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital
Forfattere:Alex Beam
Info:PublicAffairs (2003), Paperback, 296 pages
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Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital af Alex Beam

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Reads like a who's who of McLean patients. I was hoping for more of a history of the institution, and instead found accounts of the most famous patients and the scandals within the hospital. ( )
  ErinMa | May 15, 2019 |
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  Juliasb | Dec 1, 2016 |
"this book suffered from a lack of engagement"
read more: http://likeiamfeasting.blogspot.gr/2016/02/gracefully-insane-alex-beam.html ( )
  mongoosenamedt | Feb 29, 2016 |
Tedious. This book would be better described as the history of an elite mental health institution, the likes of which most of us will never see. Indeed, at the end the only remnant left of 'the old days' is a 'ward' for the super-rich.

It's also painfully apparent that the author has no understanding or serious conception what mental illness (or for that matter being in a 'standard' 21st century mental ward) is actually like.

Decent if you're looking for a historical perspective of McLean, rubbish if you're looking at empathy or understanding or destigmatization of mental illness. ( )
  steadfastreader | Mar 18, 2014 |
This rather superficial book can't decide whether it's a history of McLean Hospital outside Boston, or celebrity dish about famous people who have been McLean patients, or a critique of psychiatry. It doesn't quite manage to be any of these, so it comes off as fairly meanspirited and catty. Adding to the problem is Beam's writing, which has an airy tone and seems to assert that author and reader are complicit and in agreement about Beam's negative views, coupled with Beam's lack of knowledge about the history and contemporary practices of psychiatry. Beam seems to relish describing treatments such as hydrotherapy and coldpacks that are not used today and would be considered bizarre in contemporary psychiatry. Because he does not place McLean's practices in the context of contemporaneous psychiatry, he implies by omission that only McLean was stupid enough to use these practices. This isn't so. Beam's knowledge of current practice also seems scant. His diagnostic impressions when he speculates are often reductive and inaccurate, and his assertions about current diagnosis and treatment are strangely incomplete.

As a person who has worked in four inpatient facilities (both public and private, both before and in the era of managed care), I find myself in vehement disagreement with statements such as "A certain cynicism attends any hospital's long-term treatment of wealthy patients who pay their bills in full and who subsidize the care of less fortunate souls" (210). I disagree not because I think that all hospitals are great, or believe wholeheartedly in their interventions, or think they don't consider their bottom line, but because this is not how hospital staff think about and talk about patients. This is Beam's cynicism, not the attitude of the majority of people working in psychiatric facilities.

For better books about psychiatric hospitals, read Winchester's The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Hunt's excellent Mental Hospital from 1962, or any of the many complex and insightful accounts by patients and staff alike. ( )
  OshoOsho | Mar 30, 2013 |
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