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Local History Spotlight: Riverview Hospital

Learn about the history of the Riverview/Essondale hospital in PoCo, and Mental Health treatment in BC. Includes resources on the history of mental illness with a focus on first person accounts. In partnership with Coquitlam Heritage's exhibition titled Riverview: an artists point of view.

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(Don't) call me crazy : 33 voices start the conversation about mental health / edited by Kelly Jensen.

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The great pretender : the undercover mission that changed our understanding of madness / Susannah Cahalan.
Cahalan, Susannah, author.
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Hello I want to die please fix me : depression in the first person / Anna Mehler Paperny.
Paperny, Anna Mehler, author.
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Riverview Hospital : a legacy of care & compassion / [author, Karen Speirs ; design, Sung Creative].
Speirs, Karen
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Asylum [videorecording : DVD] : a story about Riverview Mental Hospital / [director, camera, editor, LisaG ; co-producer and interviewer, Heidi Currie].

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Bedlam [videorecording : DVD] : a story about Riverview Mental Hospital / [director, camera, editor, LisaG ; co-producer, Heidi Currie].

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PTSD guide / Lise LeBlanc.
LeBlanc, Lise, author.
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The ghost garden : inside the lives of schizophrenia's feared and forgotten / Susan Doherty.
Doherty, Susan, 1957- author.
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The story of psychology / Morton Hunt.
Hunt, Morton M., 1920-
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Saving normal : an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, big pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life / Allen Frances.
Frances, Allen, 1942-
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