Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals [Print Replica] [Kindle Edition]
Author: Christopher Payne - ISBN: B009D6YRK6 - Language: English - Format: PDF, EPUB
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Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals.
Asylum Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals Asylum Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals contains sadly beautiful photographs by Christopher Payne and a masterful essay by Oliver Sacks that Chris Payne Asylum Book ASYLUM Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals Asylum Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals Kay Redfield Jamison Asylum is a haunting beautiful book of lost dreams and lost minds It is a reminder that society s ideals deteriorate more rapidly than the Asylum Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals Watch the entire presentation here http psychiatry ufl edu education r Christopher Payne speaks about the history of State Hospitals and shows Amazon com Customer Reviews Asylum Inside the Closed I came to Asylum Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals having interpreted closed figuratively i e private inaccessible to the general public
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- File Size: 222156 KB
- Print Length: 209 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press; 1 edition (September 18, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009D6YRK6
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- Lending: Enabled
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"Asylum" is not a book of words as much as it is a book of images. A photo-essay, others have called it. And the pictures definitely tell a story.
"Asylum" contains haunting and classical views of 19th century Kirkbride-plan mental hospitals. The old asylums were closed-off worlds complete with greenhouses, sewing rooms, craft shops, small theaters, even bowling alleys, to occupy and entertain the patient-residents. The hospitals were completely staffed and stocked for nearly every medical contingency. They had the all the facilities and devices of 20th century psychiatric care including: straitjackets, ice showers, immersion tanks, ECT units, and one would imagine, lobotomies, for the 'treatment resistant'.
Entire communities and cultures existed inside those red brick buildings, with their white painted trim around doors and windows, and everything inside painted institutional green. In the old days, thousands of patients lived out their adult lives in these State asylums, with diagnoses like: 'undifferentiated depression' and 'dementia praecox', and were even buried on the premises after they had expired.
This book really brought back some memories. I once lived as a teenager in a residential treatment facility on the grounds of Concord Hospital (originally called: "New Hampshire State Asylum") which is depicted a few times in the book (p45, 47, 143). Looking at the photos of the different institutions in this book, I saw my old room, my old bed, the basement tunnels, the bathrooms we showered in, the chairs we sat in during group, the windows I used to look out of...
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