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Item Open Access La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico(2020-09) Rivera Garza, Cristina; University of Oklahoma Press; Kanost, LauraLa Castañeda Insane Asylum is the first inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum—a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. It links life within the asylum’s walls to the radical transformations brought about as Mexico entered the Revolution’s armed phase and then endured under succeeding modernizing regimes.