Table of contents for The lives they left behind : suitcases from a state hospital attic / Darby Penney and Peter Stastny ; photographs by Lisa Rinzler.

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements (still to come)
Foreword 											3	
Prologue: Life in the Attic 7
Chapter 1. He took them on their last walk	 15
Chapter 2. Who were the people that went to Willard and why did they go there? 32
Chapter 3. How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) 47 
Chapter 4. In Permanent Limbo: She kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor 60
		turned into the devil incarnate)
Chapter 5. Children were buried and she knit her life away 80
Chapter 6. Like a Fly in a Spider Web 92
Chapter 7. What happened to the people during their stay at Willard 116
 and how were they treated?
Chapter 8. A photographic talent: Rising Above The Fray		 129
Chapter 9. A frequent visitor to the White House 145
Chapter 10. My blood temper...resigned 172 
Chapter 11. An Italian princess and a French intellectual 187
Epilogue: Is It Better Today? 	 210 
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Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.) -- History.
Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.).
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history -- New York.
History, 20th Century -- New York.
Mental Disorders -- history -- New York.
Patients -- New York.