Nightmare Factories: The Asylum in the American Imagination by Troy Rondinone
English | September 24th, 2019 | ISBN: 1421432676 | 344 pages | EPUB | 3.70 MB
Madhouse, funny farm, psychiatric hospital, loony bin, nuthouse, mental institution: no matter what you call it, the asylum has a powerful hold on the American imagination. Stark and foreboding, they symbolize mistreatment, fear, and imprisonment, standing as castles of despair and tyranny across the countryside. In the "asylum" of American fiction and film, treatments are torture, attendants are thugs, and psychiatrists are despots.