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"1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright, happy future - until one night of passion has more catastrophic consequences than she ever could have anticipated. Labelled a moral defective and sectioned under the Mental Deficiency Act, she is forced to endure years of unspeakable cruelty at the hands of those who are supposed to care for her.1981. When psychiatrist Janet Humphreys comes across Nora,...
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When Daniel arrives in Himmelstal, a private Swiss psychiatric facility, to visit his twin brother Max, he has no idea what's in store for him. He finds himself unquestioningly accepting Max's plea for help and the brothers swap paces in order for Max to take care of some business. All he claims to need is a couple of days in the outside world to settle his debt. But soon Daniel realizes Max isn't coming back-- and the clinic is far from a place of...
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"En el Quebec de los años 50, franceses e ingleses se toleran a duras penas; tal como sucede entre los padres de Maggie. El padre de Maggie es un angloparlante con grandes ambiciones para su hija que no incluyen un matrimonio con Gabriel Phénix, un joven francés y pobre que vive en la granja de al lado. Sin embargo, el corazón de Maggie le pertenece por completo. Cuando queda embarazada a los quince años, sus padres la obligan a dar a la pequeña...
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"What's the matter with Mommy?" A chance encounter with two traumatized children leaves Peter Parker haunted by that same question. But his search for an answer finds him trapped in the Mad Dog Ward, an asylum for killers, psychopaths--and people who think they're super heroes! As the drugs kick in, Peter's grasp on reality dissolves and his memories of Spider-Man fade. Can he piece his double identity back together, discover the horrible truth behind...
86) The murmurings
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After her older sister dies from an apparent suicide and her body is found hanging upside down by one toe from a tree, sixteen-year-old Sophie starts to hear the same voices that drove her sister to a psychotic break.
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England, 1947: A young woman finds herself under close observation in an insane asylum, charged with a violent crime she has no memory of committing. As she tries to make sense of her recent past, she recalls very little. But she still remembers wartime in Yugoslavia. There she and her lover risked everything to carry out dangerous work resisting the Germans--a heroic campaign in which many brave comrades were lost. After that, the trail disappears...
89) Child's play
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Set 50 years into the future in a time when religion has been banned, patients in a mental health facility are careful to avoid scrutiny when they begin to explore the amazing possibilities of a fortune cookie's reading, "You are my favorite child. God.". The thinking soon infects other patients and the government must tighten its noose until it is met with some startling surprises.
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When fifteen-year-old Sabrina meets Alec at the Wellness Center where she is being treated for schizophrenia, he tries to persuade her that it is the world that is crazy, not them, and she should defy her doctors rather than lose what makes her creative and special.
91) Kukła
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"The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ, a senior psychiatric nurse, is desperate to protect his charges. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is looking...
92) Stella Maris
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"Stella Maris" to kontynuacja powieści "Pasażer", która wciąga i intryguje już od pierwszych stron. Tytułowym miejscem jest bowiem szpital psychiatryczny, do którego w 1972 roku trafia niejaka Alicia Western - doktorantka matematyki na Uniwersytecie w Chicago, wybitna skrzypaczka oraz córka naukowca współpracującego z amerykańskim rządem przy tajnym projekcie badawczym mającym na celu stworzenie zupełnie nowego typu broni. Choć wydawało...
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Would you risk everything to save a stranger? Off the coast of Venice lurks Poveglia, the world's most haunted isle, steeped in centuries of innocent blood. A deranged doctor who took great joy in torturing his patients in life continues to rule his abandoned asylum after death. Few go to Poveglia willingly, but medium Kate Carlsson has no choice. It's her job. While struggling to retrieve a young girl's soul, Kate uncovers some shocking truths about...
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"Shortly after a fractious weekend away with her family, Gaelle wakes up injured in a psychiatric hospital in Berlin. Her seven-year-old son is in a coma in another hospital - and the police suspect her of attempting to murder him. With no memory of what happened but convinced of her innocence, Gaelle escapes and begins a determined hunt for the truth. Michael is a contract killer working for Scorpio, a ruthless organisation that spares no-one, where...
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"Pacjenci luksusowego ośrodka leczenia zaburzeń psychicznych skarżą się na przeszkadzające im w nocy hałasy. Są przekonani, że stary gmach, będący obecnie siedzibą kliniki „Pod Liliami”, nawiedzany jest przez duchy. Domagają się od jej właścicielki sprowadzenia na miejsce osoby zdolnej poradzić sobie z tym problemem. Chcąc zadowolić swych pensjonariuszy, dyrektor Aldona Gwież prosi o pomoc pewien zakon. Nie wie jednak, że...
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Erasmo Aragón sufre un abrupto cambio de vida al quedarse sin trabajo tras ser falsamente acusado de abuso sexual. La tensión que este incidente genera lo lleva a enterrar sus recuerdos. Sometido por los ansiolíticos, deja atrás la persona desinhibida que fue y se transforma en un ser torturado por la paranoia y en permanente estado de alerta. Durante el redescubrimiento de sí mismo conocerá a Joselin, enfermera que trabaja en la clínica psiquiátrica...
97) The crow garden
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Haunted by his father's suicide, Nathaniel Kerner walks away from the highly prestigious life of a consultant to become a mad-doctor. He takes up a position at Crakethorne Asylum, but the proprietor is more interested in phrenology and his growing collection of skulls than the patients' minds. Nathaniel's only interesting case is Mrs Victoria Harleston: her husband accuses her of hysteria and delusions - but she accuses him of hiding secrets far more...
98) To, co zostawiła
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Minęło dziesięć lat, odkąd matka Izzy Stone zastrzeliła śpiącego męża, pozbawiając swoją córkę ukochanego ojca. Przekonana o obłędzie matki Izzy nie może jej tego wybaczyć i wciąż odmawia odwiedzenia kobiety w więzieniu. Siedemnastolatka mieszka w rodzinie zastępczej, a w wolnych chwilach pomaga przybranym rodzicom w porządkowaniu zbiorów lokalnego muzeum, w którym pracują. Pewnego dnia w stercie porzuconych i zapomnianych...
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