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25 Μαΐ 2016 · 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. The patients were often kept in the most horrendous conditions and, in some cases, were treated far worse than any mistreated farm animal.
5 Αυγ 2023 · 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.
25 Απρ 2024 · The Danvers State Insane Asylum’s appalling circumstances were seen in the 278 deaths that occurred there in 1939 alone. The majority of Danvers was closed down in 1985, but the torture and...
12 Νοε 2020 · In 1887, 23-year-old reporter Nellie Bly had herself committed to a New York City asylum to expose the horrific conditions for 19th-century mental patients.
Few institutions in history evoke more horror than the turn of the 20th century “lunatic asylums.” Infamous for involuntary committals and barbaric treatments, which often looked more like torture than medical therapies, state-run asylums for the mentally ill were bastions of fear and distrust, even in their own era. The…
29 Νοε 2021 · Insane asylums, also called lunatic asylums, were first built in the 1850s and 1860s to replace almshouses and poorhouses in the U.S. Meant to be an improvement, asylums soon became far worse...
14 Μαρ 2019 · 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.
