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Inside the asylum of nightmares: violence, madness, and the criminally insane.

Behind the Gates of Gomorrah

Life inside one of America's largest hospitals for the criminally insane, treating the real Hannibal Lecters of this world

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    288 pages

  • Release Date

    2 January 2018

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Summary

Psychiatrist Stephen Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards when he accepted a job at California’s Napa State hospital, known locally as ‘Gomorrah’, but nothing could have prepared him for what he encountered when he stepped through its gates. Napa State is one of the nation’s largest forensic mental hospitals, dedicated to treating the criminally insane. Unit C, where Seager was assigned, was reserved for the ‘bad actors’, the mass murderers, serial killers and the real-life Hannibal L…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760632366
ISBN-10:1760632368
Author:Stephen Seager
Publisher:Allen & Unwin
Imprint:Allen & Unwin
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:2 January 2018
Weight:324g
Dimensions:40mm x 129mm x 199mm
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Behind the Gates of Gomorrah by Stephen Seager - ISBN: 9781760632366
129 × 199 mm
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A4
mm / in
About The Author

Stephen Seager

Stephen Seager is a board-certified psychiatrist, a former professor of psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine and a multiply published author.

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