psychiatric hospitals

The struggle for power between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution leads to a climax of hate, violence, and death.

A fortieth anniversary edition of the novel that chronicles the power struggle between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution, with illustrations, and an introduction by the author.

After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.