"In 1871, as Chicago's Great Fire destroys their bookshop, Meg and Sylvie Townsend make a harrowing escape with the help of reporter Nate Pierce. But when their father is committed to an asylum after being accused of murder, they must prove his innocence before the asylum truly drives him mad"--

Harleen Quinzel witnesses her father being beat up by thugs when she is seven years old. Years later she is able to put her past behind her and pursues a career in psychiatry. Assigned to Arkham Hospital, she will discover The Joker and begin her own metamorphosis into supervillain Harley Quinn.

McLean Hospital is one of the most famous, most elite, and was among the most luxurious mental institutions in America. In its "golden age," McLean provided as gracious and gentle an environment for the treatment of mental illness as one could imagine. Gracefully Insane chronicles the hopes and failures of psychology and psychotherapy, the evolution of attitudes about mental illness, and the economic pressures that are making McLean, and other institutions...

In Lives They Left Behind, contents of several suitcases left behind in the attic of the Willard Psychiatric Center in upstate New York after closing in 1995 were examined and compared to the written record to create a moving group portrait of 20th century American psychiatric care.