
"In their poignant detail the items helped rescue these individuals from the dark sprawl of anonymity."-"The New York Times"
" The authors] spent 10 years piecing together . . . the lives these patients lived before they were nightmarishly stripped of their identities."-"Newsday"
More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients' belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. They are skillfully examined here and compared to the written record to create a moving-and devastating-group portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.
| o brien niel gass ronald jean paul sarte robert n anthony jordan patterso j p yadav | stephen randy davi carl sagan victor e frankl ken langdon garrett putman serviss |