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For further reading and discussion...
Nancy Tomes, The Art of Asylum-Keeping Roy Porter (editor), The Faber Book of Madness Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space Gustav Radbruch, The Philosophy of Confinement (essay) Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude Joseph P. Morrissey, Howard H Goldman, and Lorraine V. Klerman, Cycles of Institutional Reform Lunt, Behind the Bars Phyllis Chesler, Women and Madness Michael Glenn (editor), Voices From the Asylum Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (short story) Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (short story) Anonymous, Labeling Someone Mentally Ill (a case study) R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience The Divided Self Thomas Scheff, Labeling Theory (article) David Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places (article) Allan Wheelis, The League of Death (short story) Peter Sedgwick, Psycho Politics: Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz, and the Future of Mass Psychiatry Andrew T. Scull, Madness and Segregative Control: The Rise of the Insane Asylum David Rothman, The Enduring Asylum Gerald Grob, Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 Mental Illness and American Society 1875-1940 From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America Phil Brown, The Transfer of Care: Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization and its Aftermath Frederick L. Covan, with Carol Kahn, Crazy All the Time Susan Sheehan, Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Irwin Silverman, Pure Types are Rare Seth Farber, Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of Angels Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes Lisa Berger and Alexander Vuckovic, Under Observation Jay Neugeboren, Imagining Robert Transforming Madness Nita Lindenberg, Strangers to Themselves Daniel Paul Schreber, Memoirs of my Nervous Illness Edgar Allan Poe, The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether (short story) Anton Chekhov, Ward No. 6 (short story) Erving Goffman, Asylums Judi Chamberlin, Inside the Mental Patients' Association (article) Raymond M. Weinstein, The Mental Hospital from the Patients' Point of View (article) Elizabeth Ettorre and Elianne Riska, Gendered Moods: Psychotropics and Society David Mechanic and David Rochefort, Deinstitutionalization: An Appraisal of Reform (article) Theodore Marmor and Karyn Gill, The Political and Economic Context of Mental Health Care in the United States (article) William Gronfein, Psychotropic Drugs and the Origins of Deinstitutionalization (article) Leslie Scallet, Paying for Public Mental Health Care (article) Carl A. Taube, Medicaid Coverage for Mental Illness: Balancing Access and Costs (article) Robert Dorwart, Managed Mental Health Care: Myths and Realities in the 1990's (article) Arthur Kleinman, Rethinking Psychiatry Elizabeth Cooksey and Phil Brown, Spinning on its Axes: DSM and the Social Construction of Psychiatric Diagnoses (article) Kay Jamison, Touched with fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament Meyer Shapiro, Van Gogh's "Crows over a Wheatfield" Ellen Winner, Invented Worlds John McGregor, The Discovery of the Art of the Insane Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer (play) Peter Schaffer, Equus (play) F. L. Wright, Jr., Out of Sight, Out of Mind Mary Jane Ward, The Snake Pit (also a movie) Emily Coleman, The Shutter of Snow Henry C. Brown, A Mind Mislaid Jane Hillyer, Reluctantly Told An Inmate of Ward 8, Behind the Door of Delusion Marion King, Recovery of Myself Elsa Krauch, A Mind Restored S.W. and J.T. Pierce, The Layman looks at Doctors Harold Maine, If a Man be Mad Ellen Philtine, They Walk in Darkness Nelly Bly, Ten Days in a Madhouse John Huston, Let there be Light (movie) 
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