Mental Asylums in Fiction: Sanity, Conformity, and Control | Roundabout Books | Presentations + Exhibits | The Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon

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Mental Asylums in Fiction: Sanity, Conformity, and Control

The mental asylum has long served as a powerful metaphor for our deepest fears—helplessness, corrupt authority, and losing our grip on reality itself. Explore how writers transform the institution into a mirror, using mental asylums to ask dangerous questions about conformity and control with local writer, Joel Clements. Registration is required.

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