In a special section on 1950s culture, Maria Farland discusses Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and its role in the anti-psychiatry movement. In writing the 1963 novel, “Plath made deliberate use of the ...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Thirty-seven boys who died in the early 1950s in a Dutch psychiatric hospital run by the Catholic Church were probably killed by a monk in charge of their care, prosecutors said ...