sentences:  She would return to her family and in 1925 she found work at a psychiatric hospital as a secretary, where she would remain for a year and a half.She agreed to work at the hospital only if, she recounted later in an interview, the director would let her speak to patients after she had finished her secretarial tasks for the day.It is likely that this experience helped to inform many of the major themes in her written work, including a particular fascination with “life and death, insanity and sanity.”
  
  After working at the hospital, Vicens found work at the Department of Agriculture.