Emphasis Preaching Journal

Nearly a century ago, in a mental institution outside Boston, a young girl known as "Little Annie" was locked into a room that could only be called a dungeon. The doctors had tried every treatment they could possibly find; this case of insanity, they were convinced, was incurable.

Alternating between fits of uncontrollable rage, long periods of turning inward upon herself, and communicating with no one, Little Annie was consigned to a kind of living death, in a tiny cubicle that received little light and even less hope.