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1 Ιαν 2020 · The histories of madness, insanity and the asylum proved to be a rich source of patients’ records, with one major problem: these clinical and administrative records were produced about confined individuals and present challenges for historians wanting firsthand accounts of what it means to be ‘mad’.
25 Μαΐ 2016 · 10 Brutal Accounts Of Torture In Old Insane Asylums. by Elizabeth Yetter. fact checked by Jamie Frater. 222. Reports from the 1800s and early 1900s about the abuse of patients in insane asylums are enough to make the strongest person want to vomit.
1 Ιαν 2020 · In this presentation, artefactual and archival evidence gathered from two historical asylums in the United States—the Eastern Lunatic Asylum and the Western Washington Hospital for the...
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.
29 Οκτ 2020 · 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.
5 Αυγ 2023 · These asylums often housed those who were not actually “ill,” such as criminals, people with disabilities, and sometimes even immigrants. They were targeted because they were deemed unwanted by society — and thus, they were all banished together.
1 Αυγ 2024 · 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.
