Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
Writings by Mad People
A resource list of narratives published by people with experience of psychiatry or madness. This list is
being compiled by Erick Fabris (most recent additions April 2006). Where books are available at the
Toronto Public Library and two local university libraries, a call number is provided in the right
columns. Columns with diagonal strikes have not been checked in library catalogues. Some available
books have not been found on library stacks. Titles in blue are references.
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Date
of
Publ
icati
on
Title and Bibliographic
Information
Abbott, Jack
Henry.
Abrams, Albert.
1991
In the Belly of the Beast, Vintage
Books.
Transactions of the Antiseptic Club.
New York: E.B. Treat.
Adams, Brian.
2003
Adams, J. K.
1971
Adler, George
J.
1854
Agnew, Anna.
1886
Aldrin, Edwin E.
“Buzz,” Jr. (with
Wayne Warga).
Alexander,
Rosie.
1973
Alexandra.
1984
Alexson, Jacob.
1941
Allen, Clare.
2006
Author
1895
1995
Available at Available
York
at
University
University
Libraries
of Toronto
according to
internet
search
unless blank
The Pits and the Pendulum: A Life
with Bipolar Disorder. London:
Jessica Kingsley.
Secrets of the Trade: Notes on
Madness, Creativity and Ideology.
New York: Viking.
Letters of a Lunatic: A Brief
Exposition of My University Life
During the Years 1853-1854. New
York: The Author.
From Under a Cloud; or, Personal
Reminiscences of Insanity.
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke.
Back to Earth. New York: Random
House.
Folie à Deux: An Experience of Oneto-One Therapy. London: Free
Association Books.
I Speak for the Silent. Enfield, UK:
Alexandra Press.
The Triumph of Personal Thought
and How I Became a Mason.
Washington: Ransdell.
Poppy Shakespeare. London:
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Library
unless
specified:
(S)
Altenberg, P.
1960
Anderson, A.E.
1979
Anonymous.
1854
Anonymous.
1852
Anonymous.
1898
Anonymous.
1884
Anonymous.
1951
Anonymous.
1934
Anonymous.
1846
Anonymous.
1844
Anonymous
1901
Anonymous.
1846
Anonymous.
1848
Anonymous.
1932
Anonymous.
Anonymous.
1945
1940
Anonymous.
1842
Anonymous.
1867
Anonymous.
1855
Bloomsbury.
Evocations of Love (trans. Alexander
King). New York: Simon &
Schuster.
Pain: The Essence of Mental Illness.
Lauderdale, FL: Exposition Press.
“A Chapter from Real Life. By a
Recovered Patient.” The Opal: A
Monthly Periodical of the New York
State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. 4: 4850.
“A Letter from a Patient.” The Opal:
A Monthly Periodical of the New York
State Lunatic Asylum, Devoted to
Usefulness. 2: 245-46.
A Madman's Musings: Being a
Collection of Essays Written by a
Patient During His Detention in a
Private Madhouse. London: A. E.
Harvey.
A Palace Prison; or, The Past and
the Present. New York: Fords,
Howard & Hulbert.
Autobiography of a Schizophrenic.
Bristol: J. Baker & Son.
Autobiography of a Suicide.
Lawrence, L. I: Golden Galleon.
Bedlamiana: or, Selections from the
"Asylum Journal." Lowell, for the
Compiler.
“Case VIII.” American Journal of
Insanity. 1: 52-71.
Five Months in a Mad-house; an
Actual Experience, by an Inmate.
New York: Press Exchange.
“Illustrations of Insanity.” American
Journal of Insanity. 3: 212-26, 33348.
“Illustrations of Insanity Furnished by
the Letters and Writings of the
Insane.” American Journal of
Insanity. 4: 290-303.
I Lost My Memory--The Case as the
Patient Saw It. London: Faber.
I Question. Nashville, TN
“Insulin and I.” American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry. 10: 810-14.
“Letter By ‘A Friend of the Insane.’”
Asylum Journal. 1(5): 2.
Life in a Lunatic Asylum: An
Autobiographical Sketch. London:
Houlston and Wright.
“Life in the Asylum.” The Opal: A
Monthly Periodical of the New York
State Lunatic Asylum. Edited by
Patients. 5: 4-6.
“Life on a Psychiatric Ward.” Mind.
“Ordeal in a Mental Hospital.” The
Radical Therapist.
“Recovery from a Long Neurosis.”
Psychiatry. 15: 161-77.
Scenes from the Life of a Sufferer:
Being the Narrative of a Residence
in Morningside Asylum. Edinburgh:
Royal Asylum Press.
“Scenes in a Private Madhouse.”
Asylum Journal. 1(1): 1.
“The Confessions of a Nervous
Woman.” Post Graduate Monthly.
Journal of Medicine and Surgery. 11:
364-68.
“The Ohio Lunatic Asylum.” The
Journal of Psychological Medicine
and Mental Pathology. 3: 456-90.
The Petition of the Poor Distracted
People in the House of Bedlam.
London.
“They Said I Was Mad.” The Forum
and Century. 100: 231-37.
Special issue—“What It’s Like—From
the Receiving End.” Mind Out.
“Wondering: The Impressions of an
Inmate.” Atlantic Monthly. 145: 669.
Code White. Toronto: McGilligan
Books.
No Longer Lonely. Van Nuys, CA:
Bible Voice.
Different Minds, Different Voices.
Cool Hand Communications.
Antonin Artaud Anthology. San
Francisco: City Lights Books.
Anonymous.
Anonymous.
1971
1974
Anonymous.
[Mrs. F.H.]
Anonymous.
1952
Anonymous.
1842
Anonymous.
1896
Anonymous.
1850
Anonymous.
1620
Anonymous.
1938
Anonymous.
1974
Anonymous.
1930
Anderson,
Debra.
Ansite, Pat.
2005
Aronson,
Virginia.
Artaud,
Antonin.
1996
Balt, John.
1967
By Reason of Insanity. New York:
New American Library.
Balter, M., and
R. Katz.
Barlow, Brigit.
1991
Barnes, Mary,
Berke, Joseph.
1982
Barnes, Mary &
Scott, Ann.
1989
Barry, A.
1971
Barrymore,
Diana.
1957
Nobody’s Child. Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley.
“How I Conquered Claustrophobia.”
Mind Out.
Mary Barnes: Two Accounts of a
Journey Through Madness.
(reprinted, New York: Other Press,
2002).
Something Sacred: Conversations,
Writings, Paintings. London: Free
Association Books.
Bellevue Is a State of Mind. New
York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Too Much, Too Soon. New York:
Holt
1855
1977
1965
1975
in process
(01/06)
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(01/06)
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1965
RC463 .B37
1982
RC 514
.B355 1989
RC 462 B37
RC462 .B37
PN 2287 B28
A3
PN2287
.B28 A3
“Overcoming the Impossible: My
Journey through Schizophrenia.”
Psychology Today. February 2001.
I Came to My Island: A Journey
Through the Experience of Change.
Seattle: Straub.
The dinosaur man: tales of madness
and enchantment from the back
ward. 1st ed. Edward Burlingame
Books.
My Life as a Dissociated Personality.
Boston: Badger.
online
A Mind That Found Itself. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press.
Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania. New
York: Random House.
Address to Humanity, Containing a
Letter to Dr. Thomas Monro; a
Receipt to Make a Lunatic, and
Seize his Estate and a Sketch of a
True Smiling Hyena. London: The
Author.
The Prison of My Mind. New York:
Walker.
Riding the Roller Coaster: Living with
Mood Disorders. Kelowna, BC:
Northstone.
We Heard the Angels of Madness:
One Family’s Struggle With Manic
Depression. New York, William
Morrow.
Under Observation: Life Inside a
Psychiatric Hospital. New York,
Ticknor & Fields.
Recovery. New York: Dell.
RC 439 B4
1953
RC516 .B395
2002
Bassman,
Ronald.
2001
Bauer, Hanna.
1973
Baur, Susan.
1991
B.C.A. (with an
introduction by
Morton Prince,
MD).
Beers, Clifford.
1909
Behrman,
Andy.
Belcher,
William.
2003
Benziger,
Barbara Field.
Bergen, Marja.
1969
Berger, D,
Berger, L.
1991
Berger, L,
Vuckovic, A.
1994
Berryman,
John.
1973
Berzon, Betty.
2002
Blackbridge,
Persimmon.
1996
Blackbridge,
Persimmon.
1997
Prozac Highway. Vancouver, BC:
Press Gang.
Blackbridge,
Persimmon,
Gilhooly, S.
Bly, Nellie
[Elizabeth
Cochrane].
1985
Still Sane. Vancouver: Press Gang.
1887
Ten Days in a Madhouse; or, Nellie
Bly’s Experience on Blackwell’s
Island. Feigning Insanity in Order to
1908
1796
1999
Surviving Madness: A Therapist’s
Own Story. Madison, WI: University
of Wisconsin Press.
Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies.
Vancouver, BC: Press Gang.
1957
online
RC514
.B364 1991
RC439 .B4
1953
RC516
.B395 2002
RC 464 B45
A3
RC 516 B44
1991
PS 3503
E744 R4
1973
HQ 75.4 B49
A3 2002
PS 8553
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1996
PS8553
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1997
RC445 .M4
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ERIN [Miss]
PS3503
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PS8553
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1996
PS8553
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1997
Boisen, Anton
T.
Boisen, Anton
T.
Bowers, M. B.
1936
Brandon,
David.
Brandt,
Anthony.
1980
Brinkle,
Andriana P.
Brinson, Jean
Small.
1887
Brown, Carlton.
1944
Brown, Henry
Collins.
Bruckshaw,
Samuel.
1937
Bruckshaw,
Samuel.
1774
Buck, Peggy.
1978
Buckley, P,
Sander, F.
1974
Bukovskii, V.
1978
Bullitt-Jonas,
Margaret.
Burke, R.
1999
Caine, Linda
and Robin
Royston.
Camp, Joseph.
2003
1960
1974
1975
1994
1774
1995
1882
Reveal
Asylum Horrors. New York: Norman
L. Munro.
The Exploration of the Inner World.
New York: Harper and Row.
Out of the Depths. New York: Harper
and Row.
Retreat From Sanity. New York:
Human Sciences.
“Three Meetings with Madness,”
Mind Out.
Reality Police: The Experience of
Insanity in America. New York:
Morrow.
“Life Among the Insane.” North
American Review. 144:190-99.
Murderous Memories: One Woman’s
Hellish Battle to Save Herself. Far
Hills, NJ: New Horizon.
Brainstorm. New York: Farrar and
Rinehart.
A Mind Mislaid. New York: E. P.
Dutton.
The Case, Petition, and Address of
Samuel Bruckshaw, who Suffered a
Most Severe Imprisonment, for Very
Near the Whole Year, Loaded with
Irons, without Being Heard in his
Defense, Nay Even without Being
Accused, and at Last Denied an
Appeal to a Jury. Humbly
Offered to the Perusal and
Consideration of the Public. London:
The Author.
One More Proof of the Iniquitous
Abuse of Private Madhouses.
London: The Author.
I’m Depressed---Are You Listening
Lord? Valley Forge, PA: Judson.
“The history of psychiatry from the
patient’s viewpoint.” American
Journal of Psychiatry. 131: 1147–
1150
To Build a Castle: My Life as a
Dissenter. London: Andre Deutsch.
Holy Hunger: A Memoir of Desire.
New York: Knopf.
When the Music’s Over: My Journey
Into Schizophrenia. Gates, R,
Hammond, R. (eds.). New York:
Basic Books.
Out of the Dark. London: Bantam
Press.
An Insight into an Insane Asylum.
BL 53 B6
1962
RC 512 B67
HN3525
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RC464 .B6
A3
RC512 .B67
RC 443 B7
RC443 .B7
DK 275 B84
A37
DK275 .B84
A37
Cantor, Carla
(with Brian
Fallon).
Capponi, Pat.
1996
Cardinal, Marie.
1995
Casey, Joan F.
and Lynn
Wilson
Castle, Kit, and
S. Bechtel.
Katherine,
Chadwick,
Peter K.
1991
Chaloner, John
Armstrong.
1906
Chaloner, John
Armstrong.
Chamberlin,
Judi.
1914
Chambers,
Julius.
Chase, T.
1876
Chisholm, Kate.
Cienin, Pawel.
2002
1972
Cleaves, M. A.
1910
Clemens,
Louisa Perina
Courtauld.
Coate, Morag.
1870
Colas, Emily.
1998
Coleman, Ron.
1999
1992
1989
1993
1978
1987
1964
Louisville, KY: The Author.
Phantom Illness: Shattering the Myth
of Hypochondria. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin.
Upstairs in the Crazy House: The
Life of a Psychiatric Survivor.
Toronto: Penguin Books,
In Other Words. Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press.
Flock: The Autobiography of a
Multiple Personality. New York:
Ballantine Books.
It’s Time: An Incredible Journey into
the World of a Multiple Personality.
New York: Harper & Row.
“The Stepladder to the Impossible: A
First Hand Phenomenological
Account of a Schizoaffective
Psychotic Crisis.” Journal of Mental
Health. 2: 239-250, 1993.
The Lunacy Law of the World: Being
that of Each of the Forty-Eight States
and Territories of the United States,
with an Examination Thereof and
Leading Cases Thereon; Together
with that of the Six Great Powers of
Europe—Great Britain, France, Italy,
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and
Russia. Roanoke Rapids, NC:
Palmetto Press.
Who's Looney Now? Roanoke
Rapids, NC.: Palmetto.
On Our Own: Patient-Controlled
Alternatives to the Mental Health
System. New York: Hawthorn Books.
A Mad World and Its Inhabitants.
New York: Appleton.
When Rabbit Howls: The Troops for
Truddi Chase. New York, Dutton.
Hungry Hell. London: Short Books.
Fragments from the Diary of a
Madman. London: Gryf.
The Autobiography of a
Neurasthenic. Boston: Badger.
Narrative of a Pilgrim and Sojourner
on Earth, from 1791 to the Present
Year, 1870. Edinburgh.
Beyond All Reason. London:
Constable.
Just Checking: Scenes from the Life
of an Obsessive-Compulsive. New
York: Simon & Schuster.
Recovery: An Alien Concept.
RC 464 C36
A3 1992
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1979
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Collins, William
J.
Cowper,
William.
Coyle, Charles.
1971
Crawford, Paul.
2002
Crowley,
Kathleen.
1995
Cruden,
Alexander.
1754
Cruden,
Alexander.
1739
Cruden,
Alexander.
1740
1816
1983
Gloucester, UK: Handsell Publishing.
Out of the Depths. New York:
Doubleday.
Memoir of the Early Life of William
Cowper. New York: Taylor & Gould.
“Life in an Insane Asylum.” Overland
Monthly. 13:161-171.
Nothing Purple, Nothing Black.
Lewes, UK: Book Guild.
The Day Room: A Memoir of
Madness and Mending. Kennedy
Carlisle Publishing.
The Adventures of Alexander the
Corrector, Wherein Is Given an
Account of His Being Unjustly Sent
to Chelsea, and of His Bad Usage
during the Time of his Chelsea
Campaign . . . with an Account of the
Chelsea-Academies, or the Private
Places for the Confinement of Such
As Are Supposed to Be Deprived of
the Exercise of Their Reason.
London: The Author.
The London-Citizen Exceedingly
Injured; or, a British Inquisition
Display’d, in an Account of the
Unparallel’d Case of a Citizen of
London, Bookseller to the Late
Queen, Who Was in a Most Unjust
and Arbitrary Manner Sent on the
23rd of March Last, 1738, by One
Robert Wightman, a Mere Stranger,
to a Private Madhouse. London: T.
Cooper.
Mr. Cruden Greatly Injured: An
Account of a Trial between Mr.
Alexander Cruden, Bookseller to the
Late Queen, Plaintif, and Dr. Monro,
Matthew Wright, John Oswald, and
John Davis, Defendants; in the Court
of the Common-Pleas in Westminster
Hall July 17, 1739, on an Action of
Trespass, Assault and Imprisonment:
the Said Mr. Cruden, Tho’ in His
Right Senses, Having Been Unjustly
Confined and Barbarously Used in
the Said Matthew Wright’s Private
Madhouse at Bethnal-Green for Nine
Weeks and Six Days, till He Made
His Wonderful Escape May 31, 1738.
To Which is Added a Surprising
Account of Several Other Persons,
Who Have Been Mostly Unjustly
Confined in Private Madhouses.
London: A. Injured.
Custance, John
[pseud.].
Custance, John
[pseud.].
1954
Cutting, Linda
Katherine.
1997
Dahl, Robert G.
1959
Dallett, Janet
O.
Dangarembga,
Tsitsi.
1988
Danquah, Meri
Nana-Ama.
1998
Davenport,
Eloise.
Davidson, D.
1960
Davis, Phebe
E.
1855
Dawson,
Jennifer.
1961
Day, Beth.
1957
Delilez,
Francis.
1888
Denzer, Peter
W.
Derby, John
Barton.
Doe, Jane.
[pseud.].
Donaldson,
Kenneth.
Drake, John H.
1954
Drory, Irene.
Dukakis, Kitty
(with J.
Srovell).
Duke, Patty
(with Gloria
Hochman).
1978
1990
1952
1988
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1976
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Adventure into the Unconscious.
London: Christopher Johnson.
Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The
Philosophy of a Lunatic. New York:
Pelligrini and Cudahy.
Memory Slips: A Memoir of Music
and Healing. New York:
HarperCollins.
Breakdown. Indianapolis: BobbsMerrill.
When the Spirits Come Back.
Toronto: Inner City Books.
Nervous Conditions. London: The
Women's Press (reprinted, Seattle,
WA: Seal Press, 1996).
Willow Weep for Me: A Black
Woman’s Journey through
Depression. New York: Ballantine.
I Can't Forget. New York: Carlton.
Remembrances of a Religio-Maniac.
Stratford-on-Avon, UK:
Shakespeare.
Two Years and Three Months in the
New York State Lunatic Asylum at
Utica, Together with the Outline of
Twenty Years’
Peregrinations in Syracuse.
Syracuse: The Author.
The Ha-Ha. Boston: Little, Brown.
RC 464 C8
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1976
No Hiding Place. New York: Henry
Holt.
The True Cause of Insanity
Explained; or, The Terrible
Experience of an Insane, Related by
Himself. Minneapolis: Kimball.
Episode—A Record of Five Hundred
Lost Days. New York: Dutton.
Scenes in a Mad House. Boston:
Samuel N. Dickinson.
Crazy. New York: Hawthorne.
Insanity Inside Out. New York:
Crown.
Thirty-Two Years of the Life of an
Adventurer. New York: The Author.
Another World. New York: Vantage.
Now You Know. New York: Simon &
Schuster.
A Brilliant Madness: Living with
Manic-Depressive Illness. New York:
Bantam.
“My Way Back to Sanity.” Ladies
Home Journal. 63 (10): 54-55, 24250.
Memoirs of a Mental Case. New
York: Vantage.
Exploring Madness. Monterey, Calif,
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J.
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Harrison.
Farrell, Paula.
1972
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Caroline.
2000
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Sarah.
Feugilly, Mary
Heustis.
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1964
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Kenneth.
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Airless Spaces. New York:
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Fraser, Sarah.
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Frank, Leonard
Roy.
Freeman,
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“A Room with a View.” Valley
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George Fox: An Autobiography.
Philadelphia: Friends’ Book Store.
Faces in the Water. New York:
George Braziller.
An Angel at My Table: An
Autobiography. New York: George
Braziller.
Living with Depression—and
Winning. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale
House Publishers.
The History of Shock Treatment.
1980
“Three essays on patients’
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1975
1991
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
New York: Putnam.
Road to Love: An Autobiography.
New York: Exposition.
The Mystery of My Story:
Autobiographical Writing for Personal
and Spiritual Development. New
York: Paulist Press.
The Tormented Mind : A True Story
of Manic Depression. C & R
Publisher.
A Guard Within. London: Chatto &
Windus.
Diary Written in the Provincial
Lunatic Asylum. The Author.
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The White Shirts. Los Angeles: E.
Field.
Long Journey; a Verbatim Report of
a Case of Severe Psychosexual
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Fight against Fears. New York:
Crown.
Descent into Madness: The Diary of
a Killer. Blaine, WA: Hancock House.
Going Crazy. New York, Simon &
Schuster.
Being Different: The Autobiography
of Jane Fry. New York: John Wiley &
Sons.
An Account of the Imprisonment and
Sufferings of Robert Fuller, of
Cambridge. Boston: The Author.
What Difference Does It Make? (the
Journey of a Soul Survivor).
Cranbrook, BC: Wild Flower.
The Life of a Real Girl. New York:
St. Martin’s Press.
Sketchbook From Hell. Durham, NC:
Moore.
Women of the Asylum: Voices From
Behind the Walls, 1840–1945. New
York, Anchor Press.
“I Can’t Imagine Life Without Mental
Illness.” Mind Out.
A mingled yarn.
The Butterfly Ward. New York:
Vanguard Press.
The Monomaniac, or Shirley Hall
Asylum. New York: James G.
Gregory.
“The Yellow Wallpaper.” New
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The Living of Charlotte Perkins
Gilman. New York: Appleton-Century
Co.
Voices From the Asylum. New York:
Harper & Row.
I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can. New
York: Harper & Row.
Mockingbird Years: A Life in and out
of Therapy. New York: Basic Books.
Too Much Anger, Too Many Tears: A
Personal Triumph over Psychiatry.
New York: Quadrangle.
Madhouse. Chicago: J. P. O'Hara.
Thinking in Pictures, and Other
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