An Insight Into an Insane Asylum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Insight Into an Insane Asylum write by Joseph Camp. This book was released on 1882. An Insight Into an Insane Asylum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Experiences in the Insane Hospital of Alabama.
Asylum
Asylum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asylum write by Christopher Payne. This book was released on 2009-09-04. Asylum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a peaceful environment, a regimen of fresh air, and places for work, exercise, and cultural activities would heal mental illness. But in the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these beautiful, massive buildings—and the patients who lived in them—neglected and abandoned. Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crumbling interiors—chairs stacked against walls with peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of suitcases, never packed for the trip home. Accompanying Payne's striking and powerful photographs is an essay by Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne's photographs and to the lives once lived in these places, “where one could be both mad and safe.”
Asylum on the Hill
Asylum on the Hill - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asylum on the Hill write by Katherine Ziff. This book was released on 2018-07-31. Asylum on the Hill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Asylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Built in southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied the nineteenth-century "gold standard" specifications of moral treatment. Stories of patients and their families, politicians, caregivers, and community illustrate how a village in the coalfields of the Hocking River valley responded to a national movement to provide compassionate care based on a curative landscape, exposure to the arts, outdoor exercise, useful occupation, and personal attention from a physician. Katherine Ziff's compelling presentation of America's nineteenth-century asylum movement shows how the Athens Lunatic Asylum accommodated political, economic, community, family, and individual needs and left an architectural legacy that has been uniquely renovated and repurposed. Incorporating rare photos, letters, maps, and records, Asylum on the Hill is a fascinating glimpse into psychiatric history.
Asylum for the Insane
Asylum for the Insane - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asylum for the Insane write by William A. Decker. This book was released on 2008. Asylum for the Insane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Product Description: To establish the context within which the Kalamazoo Hospital came to be built, Decker begins the story in Europe in the previous centuries with historical antecedents, theories about mental illness and the treatment of mental disorders. These formative, primitive ideas were gradually adopted in this country where very little understanding of mental disorders existed. When the Kalamazoo State Hospital was founded, then named the Michigan Asylum for the Insane, in 1854, there were no private practitioners of psychiatry even in the largest cities. Psychiatry grew out of the exchange of information between the medical staff of these new public institutions. Dr. Decker gives readers a comprehensive view of Michigan s first psychiatric facility including the architectural style and plans, building descriptions and history, Legislative Acts regarding the operation and governance, personnel including Medical Directors, historical perspective on the causes of insanity, their treatment and services, noteworthy events and a complete bibliography and appendixes.
How to Escape an Insane Asylum
How to Escape an Insane Asylum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Escape an Insane Asylum write by Brian Carpenter. This book was released on 2019-05-23. How to Escape an Insane Asylum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is my story from being sane to committed. I hope it helps you gain an inside perspective of the Revolving door of the mentally ill.
