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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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Though patients started spending their lives at mental...
- Inside Nine Horrifying Insane Asylums Of Centuries Past
Medical historians and patient advocates, however, rightly revere Bly for her infamous exposé of the New York City Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s (now Roosevelt) Island in the East River.
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.
Though patients started spending their lives at mental asylums, more kept arriving. Overpopulated, understaffed, and underfunded, these insane asylums soon became "bywords for squalor and negligence, and often run by inept, corrupt or sadistic bureaucrats," per neurologist Oliver Sacks.
When she went undercover in a New York City insane asylum in 1887, Nellie Bly was surrounded by a world of grim horror. “Nearly all night long I listened to a woman cry about the cold and beg...
The Athens Asylum Was at the Forefront of Treatment in the 19th Century. A Victorian asylum has become a museum—and a setting for horror stories.
Established as benevolent institutions to cure the insane, lunatic asylums became widespread in the United States throughout the nineteenth century. Accounts of these institutions range from stories of success in curing the insane to tales of abusive caretakers to outbreaks of infectious disease.
