Gracefully Insane : The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

Gracefully Insane

The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

2001 • 296 pages

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Interesting look at the artistic and societal elite who have stayed in America's most famous mental hospital (James Taylor, Ray Charles, Susana Kaysen, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton), as well as the history of the institution itself. (Anne Sexton is actually the one who used the term “Gracefully Insane” for McLean residents).

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