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Let the harrowing photos above return you to a comparatively benighted era in psychiatric care — one that wasn't actually all that long ago. Next, see 37 haunting portraits of life inside Victorian mental asylums. Or discover stories from some of the most infamous insane asylums in history.
The mental asylums of 19th century England housed the criminal, the insane, and the unwanted. These are their portraits. The Victorian Era ushered in several significant changes with regard to medicine and the treatment of the ill.
While the words "insane asylum" conjure up images of dark, scary places, his photographs reveal buildings that are stunning, beautiful almost castle-like.
Patients endured horrifying “treatments” like ice baths, electric shock therapy, purging, bloodletting, straitjackets, forced drugging, and even lobotomies — all of which were considered legitimate medical practices at the time.
In this 1930 picture, psychiatric patients stand outside their rooms in Kentucky's Hopskinsville Insane Asylum. They are wearing normal clothes and have their own rooms - but treatment wasn't...
The Oxford English Dictionary says an asylum is “a benevolent institution according shelter and support to some class of the afflicted, the unfortunate, or destitute.” Payne’s pictures show us the afterlife of once thriving buildings, vital and hulking parts of America’s mental health industry.
Behind Closed Doors: A Look Inside Insane Asylums of the 19th Century. Ryan Poe. 5.04K subscribers. 12K. 2.2M views 8 years ago. By "The Heretics" for the 2015 HistoryHackathon -...