Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...
PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...
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Worcester County Wonders: The state and the state of the mentally ill
Within three years, brick by inexpensive brick, the State Lunatic Asylum in Worcester was built on land that is now home to ...
"One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female." These were the damning words of an inspector who visited London's Bethlem ...
The UB Art Galleries is calling on the Buffalo community to help preserve the stories of women who were once patients at the former Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, now the site of the historic ...
Nottingham pioneered the concept of publicly funded lunatic asylum in 1812 - but quickly encountered the problem of overcrowding in the facility. The Nottingham General Lunatic Asylum was built to ...
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