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Before modern psychiatric hospitals, insane asylums detained countless mentally ill patients, criminals, and other "undesirables" in brutal conditions. Some of these facilities held 10 times as many patients as they were meant to accommodate, with some unruly inmates being kept in cages in hallways.
- Inside Nine Horrifying Insane Asylums Of Centuries Past
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- Inside Nine Horrifying Insane Asylums Of Centuries Past
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. Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
Annual asylum reports show a keen awareness of the importance of public opinion to their running, using prevention of suicide as one indicator of a caring and controlled environment.
This Review seeks to nuance the standard narrative of asylums by considering the voices and views of those who were in them at different historical timepoints.
Much less prolific in wrong-doing, Campbell was a respected and celebrated asylum superintendent, who dedicated his life to treating pauper insanity. His sexual exploitation of a female patient in 1898 came as a great shock to the surrounding community, and signalled the end of his career.
There was a movement to make the treatment of mental illness more humane during the 1700s and 1800s, but what did day-to-day life actually look like in the insane asylums of 1854?
The asylums of earlier days became popularly known as the snake pits of the 1940s and 1950s and abandoned shells in our lifetimes. How did this happen? In numerous public institutions, especially in the 1950s, the sleeping arrangements for patients with mental illness or mental retardation lacked any semblance of privacy or dignity.
