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The private war of Mrs. Packard
Commitment and detention
Patient Advocacy
Psychiatric hospital patients
Husband and wife
Women social reformers
Mentally ill
Mental Disorders
Biography
Committed to an insane asylum by her husband, a Calvinist minister, for arguing questions of dogma, Mrs. Elizabeth Packard's life was transformed from a nineteenth-century wife to a crusading reformer and pioneer feminist. Her plight illustrated the insecurity with which married women lived in an er…
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