The Culture of the State Mental Hospital
Author | : H. Warren Dunham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1960-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780814311233 |
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Author | : H. Warren Dunham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1960-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780814311233 |
Author | : Henry Warren Dunham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher Payne |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-09-04 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0262013495 |
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.”
Author | : Albert Deutsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Insane |
ISBN | : |
Expose on the deplorable conditions in state mental hospitals, including overcrowding, understaffing, inadequate budgets, lack of adequate treatment facilities, etc. It consists mostly of pieces written for the New York newspaper PM and its successor the Star, as well as some less journalistic content, written from 1940-1948.
Author | : John A. Talbott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Psychiatric hospitals |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carla Yanni |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780816649396 |
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Author | : Troy Rondinone |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421432676 |
Drawing from fictional and real accounts, movies, personal interviews, and tours of mental hospitals both active and defunct, Rondinone uncovers a story at once familiar and bizarre, where reality meets fantasy in the foggy landscape of celluloid and pulp.
Author | : Heather Murray |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2022-01-04 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0812298209 |
Asylum Ways of Seeing is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heather Murray also suggests that it is in these hospitals that patients became more intense observers: they gave more conscious consideration to institutional and broader kinds of citizenship, to the nature and needs of communities versus those of individuals, to scientific modernity, and to human rights and solidarities among the suffering. All of these ideas have animated twentieth-century America, and, as Murray shows, have not just flowed into psychiatric hospitals but outward from them as well. These themes are especially clear within patients' intimate, creative, and political correspondence, writings, and drawings, as well as in hospital publications and films. This way of thinking and imagining contrasts with more common images of the patient—as passive, resigned, and absented from the world in the cloistered setting of the hospital—that have animated psychiatry over the course of the twentieth century. Asylum Ways of Seeing traces how it is that patient resignation went from being interpreted as wisdom in the early twentieth century, to being understood as a capitulation in scientific and political sources by mid-century, to being seen as a profound violation of selfhood and individual rights by the century's end. In so doing, it makes a call to reconsider the philosophical possibilities within resignation.
Author | : Troy Rondinone |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421432684 |
How the insane asylum came to exert such a powerful hold on the American imagination. Madhouse, funny farm, psychiatric hospital, loony bin, nuthouse, mental institution: no matter what you call it, the asylum has a powerful hold on the American imagination. Stark and foreboding, they symbolize mistreatment, fear, and imprisonment, standing as castles of despair and tyranny across the countryside. In the "asylum" of American fiction and film, treatments are torture, attendants are thugs, and psychiatrists are despots. In Nightmare Factories, Troy Rondinone offers the first history of mental hospitals in American popular culture. Beginning with Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 short story "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether," Rondinone surveys how American novelists, poets, memoirists, reporters, and filmmakers have portrayed the asylum and how those representations reflect larger social trends in the United States. Asylums, he argues, darkly reflect cultural anxieties and the shortcomings of democracy, as well as the ongoing mistreatment of people suffering from mental illness. Nightmare Factories traces the story of the asylum as the masses have witnessed it. Rondinone shows how works ranging from Moby-Dick and Dracula to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Halloween, and American Horror Story have all conversed with the asylum. Drawing from fictional and real accounts, movies, personal interviews, and tours of mental hospitals both active and defunct, Rondinone uncovers a story at once familiar and bizarre, where reality meets fantasy in the foggy landscape of celluloid and pulp.