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• catalog abstract ""Its carefully landscaped grounds, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with four-and-five-story Tudor mansions, could belong to a prosperous New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution - one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include many of the troubled geniuses of our age - Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles - as well as (more secretly) other notables from among the rich and famous. In its "golden age," McLean provided as gracious and gentle an enviroment for the treatment of mental illness as one could imagine. "If the patient did not like the lamb we served for dinner and asked for lobster, we gave lobster," one steward recalled. "They could afford it. Appleton House [the men's ward] was like the Ritz Carlton." But the golden age is over, and a downsized, downscale McLean is struggling to find its place in today's brave new world of psychopharmacologically-oriented mental health care." "Gracefully Insane, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today, based on original research, McLean's own records, and interviews with former and current patients and staff. It is filled with stories about patients and doctors: the Ralph Waldo Emerson protege whose brilliance disappeared along with his madness; Anne Sexton's poetry seminar; the analyst (and McLean patient) whose own analysis was disastrously botched by Sigmund Freud himself, and many more. The story of McLean is also the story of the hopes and failures of psychology and psychotherapy, the evolution of attitudes about mental illness and approaches to treatment, and of the economic pressures that are making McLean - and other institutions like it - relics of a bygone age." "Finally, Gracefully Insane is, in the author's words, "a book about the men and women who needed shelter more than most of us, or who, in some cases, were more honest about their need for protection than we are. And about an institution that provided that shelter, imperfectly, in our imperfect world.""--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12433342.
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""Gracefully Insane, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today, based on original research, McLean's own records, and interviews with former and current patients and staff. It is filled with stories about patients and doctors: the Ralph Waldo Emerson protege whose brilliance disappeared along with his madness; Anne Sexton's poetry seminar; the analyst (and McLean patient) whose own analysis was disastrously botched by Sigmund Freud himself, and many more.".
• catalog description ""Its carefully landscaped grounds, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with four-and-five-story Tudor mansions, could belong to a prosperous New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution - one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include many of the troubled geniuses of our age - Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles - as well as (more secretly) other notables from among the rich and famous.".
• catalog description "A visit to the museum of the cures -- by the best people, for the best people -- the mayflower screwballs -- the country clubbers -- the search for the cure -- the talk cure: Freud and man at Mclean -- welcome to the twentieth century -- the mad poets' society -- staying on: the elders from planet upham -- diagnosis: "Hippiephrenia" -- physician, heal thyself -- life goes on.".
• catalog description "In its "golden age," McLean provided as gracious and gentle an enviroment for the treatment of mental illness as one could imagine. "If the patient did not like the lamb we served for dinner and asked for lobster, we gave lobster," one steward recalled. "They could afford it. Appleton House [the men's ward] was like the Ritz Carlton." But the golden age is over, and a downsized, downscale McLean is struggling to find its place in today's brave new world of psychopharmacologically-oriented mental health care."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-255) and index.".
• catalog description "The story of McLean is also the story of the hopes and failures of psychology and psychotherapy, the evolution of attitudes about mental illness and approaches to treatment, and of the economic pressures that are making McLean - and other institutions like it - relics of a bygone age." "Finally, Gracefully Insane is, in the author's words, "a book about the men and women who needed shelter more than most of us, or who, in some cases, were more honest about their need for protection than we are. And about an institution that provided that shelter, imperfectly, in our imperfect world.""--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "273 p., [8] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "1891620754 (hbk.)".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Public Affairs,".
• catalog spatial "Massachusetts".
• catalog subject "2002 D-691".
• catalog subject "362.2/1/097444 21".
• catalog subject "Hospitals, Psychiatric Massachusetts History.".
• catalog subject "McLean Hospital History.".
• catalog subject "McLean Hospital.".
• catalog subject "RC445.M4 B442 2001".
• catalog subject "WM 28 AM4 B366g 2001".
• catalog tableOfContents "A visit to the museum of the cures -- by the best people, for the best people -- the mayflower screwballs -- the country clubbers -- the search for the cure -- the talk cure: Freud and man at Mclean -- welcome to the twentieth century -- the mad poets' society -- staying on: the elders from planet upham -- diagnosis: "Hippiephrenia" -- physician, heal thyself -- life goes on.".
• catalog title "Gracefully insane : the rise and fall of America's premier mental hospital / Alex Beam.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".