Abandoned Asylums
Abandoned Asylums

Author: Matt Van Der Velde

Publisher:

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9782361951634

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Abandoned Asylums takes readers on an unrestricted visual journey inside America's abandoned state hospitals, asylums, and psychiatric facilities, the institutions where countless stories and personal dramas played out behind locked doors and out of public sight. The images captured by photographer Matt Van der Velde are powerful, haunting and emotive. A sad and tragic reality that these once glorious historical institutions now sit vacant and forgotten as their futures are uncertain and threatened with the wrecking ball. Explore a private mental hospital that treated Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities seeking safe haven. Or look inside the seclusion cells at an asylum that once incarcerated the now-infamous Charles Manson. Or see the autopsy theater at a Government Hospital for the Insane that was the scene for some of America's very first lobotomy procedures. With a foreward by renowned expert Carla Yanni examining their evolution and subsequent fall from grace, accompanying writings by Matt Van der Velde detailing their respective histories, Abandoned Asylums will shine some light on the glorious, and sometimes infamous institutions that have for so long been shrouded in darkness.

Abandoned Insane Asylums
Abandoned Insane Asylums

Author: Dinah Williams

Publisher: Bearport Publishing

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1597165751

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Discusses tales of the mistreatment that took place in eleven asylums and unexplainable phenomena that occurred in some of them.

Abandoned Asylums of Connecticut
Abandoned Asylums of Connecticut

Author: L.F. Blanchard

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1439658811

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This collection of photographs, history, and firsthand accounts gives readers a glimpse at the roots of mental health. These vignettes are born of the personal stories of those who worked at these facilities, those who were institutionalized, and their families. The authors took the time to listen to their stories and endeavored to understand their past and recognize how these events continue to influence the mental health industry today. Pictured throughout are the physical relics of the places--the now largely abandoned asylums of Connecticut--where these stories unfurled.

Abandoned Asylums of Massachusetts
Abandoned Asylums of Massachusetts

Author: Tammy Rebello

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 143965560X

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This collection of photographs, history, and firsthand accounts gives readers a glimpse at the roots of mental health. These vignettes are born of the personal stories of those who worked at these facilities, those who were institutionalized, and their families. The authors took the time to listen to their stories and endeavored to understand their pasts and recognize how these events continue to influence the mental health industry today. Pictured throughout are the physical relics of the places--the now largely abandoned asylums--where these stories unfurled.

Abandoned Asylums of Connecticut
Abandoned Asylums of Connecticut

Author: L.F. Blanchard and Tammy Rebello

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1467124583

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This collection of photographs, history, and firsthand accounts gives readers a glimpse at the roots of mental health. These vignettes are born of the personal stories of those who worked at these facilities, those who were institutionalized, and their families. The authors took the time to listen to their stories and endeavored to understand their past and recognize how these events continue to influence the mental health industry today. Pictured throughout are the physical relics of the places--the now largely abandoned asylums of Connecticut--where these stories unfurled.

Haunted Asylums
Haunted Asylums

Author: E. R. Vernor

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-10-22

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781979079006

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The expanded edition of the author's best seller adds more asylums, and many more full color photographs. Go behind the barbed wire and explore the many sanitariums or asylums that were intended to help the mentally ill but only contributed to their afflictions. Learn the history behind the infamous Riverside patient Mary Mallon, also known as "Typhoid Mary." Get spooked by the gothic and foreboding buildings at Danvers State Hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts, which became both the inspiration and the filming location for the movie Session 9, and Oregon State Hospital, where Jack Nicholson's famous One Flew Over the Coco's Nest was filmed. Today, these abandoned state institutions have been converted into other uses or remain in shambles, but the ghosts of their pasts linger. The author, also known by the pen name Corvis Nocturnum, explores these reputedly haunted asylums and others all the world over

Haunted Asylums, Prisons, and Sanatoriums
Haunted Asylums, Prisons, and Sanatoriums

Author: Jamie Davis

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 073873750X

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Recounts supernatural encounters from ten well-known U.S. institutions, including West Virginia Penitentiary and St. Albans Sanatorium, in a work that features photographs, highlights from site tours, and historical information.

The Prisoners' Hidden Life, Or, Insane Asylums Unveiled
The Prisoners' Hidden Life, Or, Insane Asylums Unveiled

Author: Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard

Publisher:

Published: 1868

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13:

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"Mrs. Packard says that because she expressed 'obnoxious views' in Sunday School at the Old School Presbyterian Church in Manteno, Kankakee County, Illinois, her husband of twenty-one years and father of her six children, the Reverand Theophilus Packard, 'abducted' her and took her to the asylum and had her incarcerated (which was legal per Illinois statute of 1851). She faithfully recorded events of her imprisonment - for that is what it was - and declares that what happened to her was not uncommon. The conditions, attitudes and behavior she describes are dreadful and extreme - and not much improved twelve decades later" -- insert provided by seller.

Forbidden Places
Forbidden Places

Author: Sylvain Margaine

Publisher: Jonglez Publishing

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9782361951313

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Head off to explore the filming location of 12 Monkeys, Michael Jackson's hometown turned ghost town, Berlin's 1936 Olympic Village, deconsecrated churches, forgotten castles, deserted train stations, prisons and mental asylums, a cemetery of rusted locomotives, abandoned steel factories, phantom metro stations, and more -- For 10 years, Sylvain Margaine has traveled the world in search of these forbidden and forgotten places -- An exceptional photographic report on urban decay.