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Historical Reference:

A Hospital Looks At Itself (Claybury)

Madness in its Place (Severalls) - Diana Gittins

Down Pans Lane (Roundway)

A Pictorial History of Horton

Personal Accounts:

The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward.  Amazingly written semi-autobiographical, semi-fictional account.

Is There No Place on Earth for Me.  An observation of a female schizophrenic patient in Creedmoor Hospital in New York, USA.

A Mind that Found Itself - Clifford Whitingham Beers.  An very detailed and shocking account of the conditions in two asylums in Massachussets, USA.

Songs from the Black Chair - Charles Barber.  Absorbing autobiography of a man who first suffers from mental illness then goes on to help afflicted others.