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A Case of HysteriaMain MenuThe Altogether Shocking History of Women’s Mental HealthThe Anatomy of InsanityThe Wandering WombTheater Of The HystericsFather Freud Knows BestThis Place Will Make You CrazyThe Water CureHysterical ParoxysmThis Lobotomy Won't Hurt A BitShe Must Be MadShock The Pain AwayJust A Touch Of ElectricityA Home For Inebriates And The InsaneThe Inmates Aren't Running The AsylumStories From The SanatoriumAgnes RichardsThe Ladies of RockhavenBaby BluesStay Subservient!The Cost of Going Crazy in CaliforniaTill Commitment Do We PartAdditional Artifacts from Patton State Hospital, ca. 1930-1950Anne-Marie Maxwell
Maybe She's Born With It
1media/Header Image - Maybe Shes Born With It.jpg2020-04-01T15:10:20-07:00Anne-Marie Maxwell326ac6eff123bb3f77fb517c66299be8b435b479369807image_header9782522020-05-07T09:48:01-07:00Anne-Marie Maxwell326ac6eff123bb3f77fb517c66299be8b435b479First-hand narratives by formerly institutionalized patients reveal the mysterious inner workings of the human brain. Elyn Saks, winner of a MacArthur “Genius” grant and founder of USC’s Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, knew from an early age that there was something haunting her emotional well being. She has publicly acknowledged her struggle to balance bouts of schizophrenia with academic pursuits. Her 2007 autobiography The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness describes her harrowing experience being physically restrained and force-fed antipsychotic medication for five months in a psychiatric ward. Recent memoirs by both Ellen Forney and Rachel Lindsay about their mutual struggles with bipolar disorder take the form of graphic novels. While the nature of the medium lends at times a light-hearted approach to the dark subject matter of medication and therapy, Lindsay offers a sobering reminder that “You won’t know the shape of your own unraveling until it happens.”
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1media/RX- A Graphic Memoir_thumb.jpg2020-04-09T10:33:36-07:00Anne-Marie Maxwell326ac6eff123bb3f77fb517c66299be8b435b479Rachel Lindsay, RX: A Graphic Memoir (New York: Grand Central, 2018)4media/RX- A Graphic Memoir.jpgplain2020-05-07T09:48:47-07:00Anne-Marie Maxwell326ac6eff123bb3f77fb517c66299be8b435b479