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MIND Reviews: Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

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BOOKS Photography by Christopher Payne. Essay by Oliver Sacks. MIT Press Insane asylum. For many people the phrase conjures up images of desperate patients trapped in concrete fortresses. Full Article at Scientific American

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