La Castañeda Insane Asylum : narratives of pain in modern Mexico / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated by Laura Kanost.

• Introduction: Words in a Title -- La Castañeda 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 Castañeda -- Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction.

• "An inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum-a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution"-- 

Ämnesord

Psychiatric hospital care  -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History -- 20th century -- Sources. (LCSH)

Mentally ill  -- Institutional care -- Mexico -- Mexico City. (LCSH)

Mentally ill  -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- Interviews. (LCSH)

Mentally ill.  (fast)

Psychiatric hospital care.  (fast)

Mentally ill  -- Institutional care. (fast)

Mexico  -- Mexico City. (fast)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Interviews.  (fast)

Sources.  (fast)

Institutionsnamn

Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.

Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico)

Klassifikation

RC451.M6 (LCC)

362.2/1097253 (DDC)

Ohfhc (kssb/8 (machine generated))