McFarland state hospital was named in honor of Andrew McFarland in 1968.
This is a nonfiction book about how mental health can be (is) used as a weapon.
Sounds like the staff at McFarland acquired a good foundational basis for administrating a corrupt fake hospital from this book. Andrew McFarland was an abuser of Elizabeth Packard. The hospital was originally named appropriately. This book on kindle tells all.
Feel free to delete every history book if you feel that this information isn't true due to its age. Just because something happend a long time ago doesn't make it any less true.
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"1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil,
Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own
battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Her
husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her because he feels
increasingly threatened—by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and
unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts. So Theophilus makes a plan to
put his wife back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed
to an insane asylum.
The horrific conditions inside the Illinois
State Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois, are overseen by Dr. Andrew
McFarland, a man who will prove to be even more dangerous to Elizabeth
than her traitorous husband. But most disturbing is that Elizabeth is
not the only sane woman confined to the institution. There are many
rational women on her ward who tell the same story: they've been
committed not because they need medical treatment, but to keep them in
line—conveniently labeled "crazy" so their voices are ignored.
No one
is willing to fight for their freedom and, disenfranchised both by
gender and the stigma of their supposed madness, they cannot possibly
fight for themselves. But Elizabeth is about to discover that the merit
of losing everything is that you then have nothing to lose...
Bestselling author Kate Moore brings her sparkling narrative voice to The Woman They Could Not Silence,
an unputdownable story of the forgotten woman who courageously fought
for her own freedom—and in so doing freed millions more. Elizabeth's
refusal to be silenced and her ceaseless quest for justice not only
challenged the medical science of the day, and led to a giant leap
forward in human rights, it also showcased the most salutary lesson:
sometimes, the greatest heroes we have are those inside ourselves." Book Summation Amazon.Com
