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Napa State Hospital
Author | : Patricia Prestinary |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781467131995 |
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Napa, because of its natural beauty and optimal conditions for "moral treatment," was chosen as the second site for a state hospital to ease overcrowding in Stockton Asylum. When the fully self-sustaining Napa Asylum opened in 1875, it quickly filled to capacity and became home to many people suffering from mental illness, alcoholism, grief, and depression. In 1924, Napa Asylum was renamed Napa State Hospital to reflect changes in the medical model and treatments for psychiatric patients. Covering the first 100 years of the hospital's history, this unique book tells the story of the institution and the people for whom it served as employer. Known locally as Imola, this beautiful site became an integral part of the community.
Behind the Gates of Gomorrah
Author | : Stephen Seager |
Publsiher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-01-02 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9781743438978 |
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Psychiatrist Stephen Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards when he accepted a job at California's Gorman State hospital, known locally as 'Gomorrah', but nothing could have prepared him for what he encountered when he stepped through its gates, a triple sally port behind the twenty-foot walls topped with shining coils of razor wire. Gorman State is one of the nation's largest forensic mental hospitals, dedicated to treating the criminally insane. Unit C, where Seager was assigned, was reserved for the 'bad actors', the mass murderers, serial killers, and the real-life Hannibal Lecters of the world. Against a backdrop of surreal beauty - a campus-like setting where peacocks strolled the well-kept lawns - is a place of remarkable violence, a place where a small staff of clinicians are expected to manage a volatile population of prison-hardened ex-cons, where lone therapists lead sharing circles with psychopaths, where homemade weapons and contraband circulate freely, and where patients and physicians often measure their lives according to how fast they can run. Behind the Gates of Gomorrah affords an eye-opening look inside a facility to which few people have ever had access. Honest, reflective, and at times darkly funny, Seager's gripping account of his experiences at Gorman State hospital give us an extraordinary insight into a unique and terrifying world, inhabited by figures from our nightmares.
Biennial Report of the Board of Managers of the Napa State Hospital
Author | : Napa State Hospital (Calif.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Asylums |
ISBN | : UCAL:B2964209 |
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Confessions of Madame Psyche
Author | : Dorothy Bryant |
Publsiher | : Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 155861186X |
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1987 American Book Award Winner A A A This ambitious and enchanting novel is both modern-day epic and a work of great emotional and spiritual death. Bold in its historical scope, rich in colorful settings, and eminently readable, Confessions of Madame Psyche also reaches inward, toward quieter truths. A A A The novel is narrated by Mei0li Murrow, born in San Francisco in 1895, the illegitimate daughter of a charismatic confidence man and the Chinese prostitute he has "rescued" from the streets. After her mother's early death, Mei-li is left to care of her mercenary half-sister Erika. When the young Mei-li, by pure coincidence, predicts the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Erika contructs her identity as "Madame Psyche"-exploiting Mei'li's exoticism and her clients' yearnings for contact with the dead in a series of ingeniously orchestrated seances that win her renown as a medium in California and then in the death-soaked Europe of the First World War. A A A Ironically, it is when she manages to finally reject the popular "spirituality" that has made her famous that Mei-li experiences a truer spiritual vision: One day, while walking on the beach, she has a revelation of her connection to all of life-"an experience of hidden reality which I have never doubted...and which left me permanently changed by what I then knew and know still and will always know." A A A Mei-li's subsequent journey leads her through the aspirations and disappointments of a utopian commune in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the 1920s; to the poverty of migrant work camps in the Depression-era Salinas Valley; and to the courage of the first strikes on San Jose's cannery row. Finally, when the relentless Erika cheats her out of an inheritance by having her committed to the Napa State Hospital, Mee-li finds her greatest wisdom and peace among the outcasts of the asylum-and there writes her "confessions." A A A Mei'li's story is ensconed in the rich history of Northern California in the first half of the twentieth century, and peopled by comrades of many classes and cultures and lovers both male and female; but her central odyssey remains one of inner discovery. In Confessions of Madame Psyche, Dorothy Bryant has created a character who is so honest in her search for truth, growth, and spiritual understanding that this quest becomes inherent to her survival.
Journal of the Senate Legislature of the State of California
Author | : California. Legislature. Senate |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822027450485 |
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The Journal of the Senate During the Session of the Legislature of the State of California
Author | : California. Legislature. Senate |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1458 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : UCD:31175030679016 |
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Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Legislature of the State of California
Author | : California |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1646 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : CHI:74624385 |
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Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Legislature of the State of California
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1632 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433008712261 |
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