Introduction: Words in a Title -- La Castaneda General Insane Asylum, 1884-1930 -- Entryway: A Mental Health Routine -- The Psychiatric Interview: The Fox and the Goose -- Through My Narrative Was I Born, My Narrative Sustains Me: Women Authoring Selves -- Looking Insane -- The Pain of Becoming Modern: Suffering and Redemption in the Medical Histories of La Castaneda -- Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction.
Summary:
"An inside view of the workings of La Castaneda General Insane Asylum-a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
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