The Boston Globe #1 bestseller and Book Sense 76 pick: A "candid and engrossing" history of "the Harvard of mental institutions," and of the evolution of psychiatric treatment. McLean Hospital is one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious mental institutions in America. Its "alumni" include Sylvia Plath, John Forbes Nash, Ray Charles and Susanna Kaysen. Jam...(展开全部)

Turkey is a nation of contradictions and contrasts. Though considered democratic, the Erdogan government has increasingly begun to resemble a dictatorship, jailing it opponents and violently suppressing dissent. And though Turkey is notionally secular, the Justice and Development Party’s power has fed the creeping influence of religious conservatism, with figures in the party d...(展开全部)

作者簡介 艾婕．泰梅爾古蘭Ece Temelkuran 擅長紀實報導，風格犀利，經常觸動當局敏感神經，是土耳其最受歡迎的政治專欄作家。文章常見於英國衛報、德國法蘭克福評論報、柏林人報、法國世界報等一線媒體。她住過黎巴嫩、突尼西亞等國，小說與紀實報導均處理高度受爭議的庫德族與亞美尼亞衝突、女權意識等，被多次選為「最多讀者的記者」、「前十大重要社交媒體人」。此外，她也出版了十數本調查報導書，並於2008 年榮獲土耳其人權協會頒發艾雪．札拉寇盧自由思想獎。 艾婕與許多文人相同，為了不觸及危險議題，她後期多半出版小說。但多年的記者訓練讓她明白寫作不可能永遠避開自己的國家，也養成了抽絲剝繭、直指病灶的習慣。 譯者簡介 紀耀凱 土耳其海峽大學翻譯學研究所碩士、美國威斯康辛大學課程與教學系世界語言教育組博士生。曾任政治大學土耳其語文學系講師。 黃楷君 政大阿拉伯語...(展开全部)

Its carefully landscaped grounds -- chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with four-and five-story Tudor mansions -- could belong to a prosperous New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution -- one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include many of the ...(展开全部)

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces ...(展开全部)

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces ...(展开全部)