Finding Aid for the Charles A. Beach diary Biomed.0648
Finding aid prepared by Jasmine Larkin, 2020.
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Title: Charles A. Beach diary
Creator:
Beach, Charles A.
source:
Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0648
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 diary)
Date (inclusive): 1874 April-1875 March
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Palinurus Antiquarian Books, 2019.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
8875050
[Identification of item], Charles A. Beach diary (Collection 648). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special
Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
"The manuscript diary of events as experienced and recorded in chronological order by Charles Beach during his confinement
in the asylum directed by Dr. Ludwig Meyer associated with the Landesirrenanstalt in Göttingen, Germany beginning in April
1874 until March 1875 and then in the national hospital for the insane of Cery in Lausanne, Switzerland from April 1875 until
August 1877. He returned to America that year and entered Northampton Hospital for the Insane. An astonishing illustrated
narrative of insanity written by a literate individual. Throughout, the record of events is recorded in a dispassionate manner
that makes the briefly noted anguish and pain poignant and moving. A mind that had in fact lost its way in a mire of delusion
and fantasy. It is all distinguished by the fact that this a not an attempt to clarify or offer an excuse. It is a record
of experience and exceptional for its vivid descriptions of sex and sexual references."
Source: Antiquarian bookseller's description, 2019.
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books