Behind the gates of Gomorrah : a year with the criminally insane / Stephen B. Seager, MD.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Gallery Books, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover editionDescription: xiv, 270 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781476774497 (hbk.); 1476774498 (hbk.)Subject(s): Seager, Stephen B. -- Career in forensic psychiatry | Napa State Hospital | Psychiatrists -- California -- Biography | Forensic psychiatry -- California | Psychiatric hospitals -- California | Mentally ill prisoners -- California | Dangerously mentally ill -- CaliforniaDDC classification: 616.890092 LOC classification: RC438.6.S43 | A3 2014Summary: Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards when he accepted a job at California's Gorman State hospital, known locally as "Gomorrah," but nothing could have prepared him for what he encountered when he stepped through its gates. Unit C, where Seager was assigned, was reserved for the mass murderers, serial killers, and the real-life Hannibal Lecters of the world. This account of his rookie year blends memoir with a narrative science, explaining both the aberrant mind and his own determination to remain in a job with a perilously steep learning curve.
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Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards when he accepted a job at California's Gorman State hospital, known locally as "Gomorrah," but nothing could have prepared him for what he encountered when he stepped through its gates. Unit C, where Seager was assigned, was reserved for the mass murderers, serial killers, and the real-life Hannibal Lecters of the world. This account of his rookie year blends memoir with a narrative science, explaining both the aberrant mind and his own determination to remain in a job with a perilously steep learning curve.
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