16 Terrifying Facts About Mental Asylums in the Early 20th …
Patients of early 20th century asylums were treated like prisoners of a jail. From the dehumanizing and accusatory admissions protocols to the overcrowding and lack of privacy, the patients were not treated like sick people who needed help.
Inside Nine Horrifying Insane Asylums Of Centuries Past - All …
2023年8月5日 · Patients endured horrifying “treatments” like ice baths, electric shock therapy, purging, bloodletting, straitjackets, forced drugging, and even lobotomies — all of which were considered legitimate medical practices at the time.
Lunatic asylum - Wikipedia
The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital.
37 Haunting Portraits Of Patients In Victorian Lunatic Asylums
2016年10月17日 · The mental asylums of 19th century England housed the criminal, the insane, and the unwanted. These are their portraits. The Victorian Era ushered in several significant changes with regard to medicine and the treatment of the ill.
A Snapshot of Life in a 19th-Century Insane Asylum - Psychology Today
2020年8月17日 · The report provides extensive information about the 403 patients who resided in this hospital at some point in 1854, including their age, sex, marital status, prognosis, length of stay, and ...
19th and 20th century psychiatry: 22 rare photos - CBS News
2011年9月29日 · In this 1930 picture, psychiatric patients stand outside their rooms in Kentucky's Hopskinsville Insane Asylum. They are wearing normal clothes and have their own rooms - but treatment wasn't...
Asylum History From the Bottom Up - Psychology Today
2024年5月19日 · By being innovative, however it is possible to paint a picture of what it was like to be in an insane asylum. Capturing the perspective of patients is crucial if we want to …
A psychiatric hospital 100 years ago: II. Patients, treatment
Data from archival sources were used to determine the kinds of patients treated at the St. Louis City (later St. Louis County) Insane Asylum, the treatments they received, activities of daily life in the asylum, and political factors affecting operation of the asylum in the late 19th and early 20th …
Insane Asylum memoirs, 1842-1890
Between 1842 and 1890, 23 American women published 33 memoirs of their experiences as patients in insane asylums. Through these memoirs, in a time inhospitable to them as public speakers, these 23 women enacted one of the first mental health patient’s rights movements.
10 Tragic Cases From Turn-Of-The-Century Insane Asylums
2016年9月6日 · Sometimes, women afflicted with the terrible tendency to speak their minds were also deemed “insane.” Most of the people who entered asylums never left. They remained nameless, faceless sufferers whose stories were forgotten. There are some, though, who either lived to tell their tales or whose memories survive in the letters they wrote.