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McLean Hospital - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Clinic, Home, Sanatorium, Sanitarium

McLean Hospital is a mental hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts noted in part for the large number of famous people who have been treated there, including mathematician John Nash, poets Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath and singer-songwriter James Taylor.

An interesting book on the history of McLean is Alex Beam's (ISBN 1891620754); some memoirs of time spent within McLean's walls include Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar and Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted (ISBN 0679746048), which was made into a movie starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.

Example Usage of Hospital

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