Gracefully Insane Quotes

“... I feel like a periwinkle Left too high on the beach By the tide ... What flood was it That brought me here? Eleanor Morris, “Easter Sunday”
― Alex Beam, Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

“A bumptious, outgoing soul, Tillotson would later earn a footnote in literary history as the doctor whose electroshock therapy so traumatized Smith College junior Sylvia Plath that she attempted suicide shortly thereafter.”
― Alex Beam, Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

“McLean was represented by F. Lyman Wells, a young assistant in pathological psychiatry, who told Hall he was entirely unimpressed. (James, too, was underwhelmed by Freud; “a man obsessed with fixed ideas,” he reported.)”
― Alex Beam, Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital