An Insight Into an Insane Asylum
Author: Joseph Camp
Publisher:
Published: 1882
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13:
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An Insight Into an Insane Asylum
Author: Joseph Camp
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9781230433219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. Writ Of habeas corpus--Dr. Guild--The Margin Op The Christian Herald, And Spectacle-case -- The Note Intercepted -- Davis Prosecuted -- Nearly Dead--T. Jones Saved My Life--Hunger. FEW days after I went there I concluded I would come out by writ of habeas corpus. I was placed in the extreme west end of the hospital, and through the window of my cell, eighth ward, could overlook the grounds they were preparing for the extension of the building. A white man by the name of Davis with some half dozen negroes were digging out the foundation. They had been digging there for several days. I talked with them through the grates until I got their ear and their sympathy. They promised me they would carry a note to Dr. Guild, an old friend with whom I lodged during the Annual Conference held in Tuscaloosa in 1879, if I could get it to them. So I wrote on the margin of my Chris6 "(81) s tian Herald to the doctor, and asked him to see Bros. Slaughter and Wilson and get them to see two attorneys, Powell and Wood, who had been recommended as able lawyers, and get them to come immediately and prosecute for me and bring me out. I prepared my note, but getting it out was the trouble. I found there were two grates, an inner and outer grate, and if I undertook to throw it out and it should strike either and fall on the sill of the window, I could not get it back or forth, as I had nothing with which to reach it. At length I thought of my spectacle-case, which was metal and heavy. I took out my spectacles and placed the note within and closed the case. I then looked to see if there was any one in the yard beside the workmen, and calling their attention, aimed as well as I could to miss the bars of iron. It struck the outer bar and the case opened, ...
Three Years in a Mad-House
Author: E. B. Fleming
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2010-04-24
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781449928568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKE. B. Fleming was in a heap of trouble. His business failed. His mind was gone. He had been committed, quite against his will-- incarcerated in the North Texas Hospital for the Insane, at Terrell, Texas. This book is his own true account of what transpired before and after his escape from the lunatic asylum. This book from 1893 will give the modern reader plenteous insights into life in the late 19th century. It gives a perspective on the treatment of the mentally ill from a patient's point of view. It immerses the reader in the racial attitudes of the day. And it depects a style of life in a largely agrarian America that has vanished for all time.
How to Escape an Insane Asylum
Author: Brian Carpenter
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9781099934759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is my story from being sane to committed. I hope it helps you gain an inside perspective of the Revolving door of the mentally ill.
Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum
Author: Mary Huestis Pengilly
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover an unforgettable memoir written by Mary Huestis Pengilly. This powerful book provides a rare look into the life of a 19th-century psychiatric patient and offers valuable insights into mental health and societal stigma. A must-read for anyone interested in the human experience.
The Untold History of the First Illinois State Hospital for the Insane
Author: Joe Squillace
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-10
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781735917115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoral treatment, the vogue of early American psychology, freed the mentally ill of their chains. They were, however, still relegated to separate institutions, commonly called asylums, for at least a brief respite from the stressors that were thought to cause their madness. Did it work? Were the patients actually treated more humanely? The Untold History of the First Illinois State Hospital for the Insane tells the stories of the people who were subjected to this new treatment on the American Frontier. As author Dr. Joe Squillace shows, the institution first had great difficulty in getting established, but the town of Jacksonville, Illinois, where the Hospital was built, rallied to make it a more humane and person-centered institution. The Hospital's leaders, too, attempted, within the constraints of their time, to treat their patients with respect. But, at a time when mental illness was still not well understood some patients were tortured and imprisoned, even though they were not insane, even by 19th century standards. What is revealed in Untold History is an institution that struggled, much like today's institutions do, to address the needs of those living with mental illness, in a culture that did not understand it fully.Dr. Squillace traces the history of the institution from its origins in the 1840s to the 1930s, outlining the various treatments administered at the institution. The book demonstrates that the institution was deeply embedded in the larger community, rife with tangled and notorious Illinois politics. Sadly, many unknown and forgotten people were buried unceremoniously in potter's fields after dark. Macabre stories ensue. The Untold History of the First Illinois State Hospital for the Insane provides a tangible connection to a rural Illinois county's struggle with treating mental illness as the medical community's understanding of it developed throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Theaters of Madness
Author: Benjamin Reiss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-09-15
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0226709655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums—many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in magnificent structures with lush grounds, patients participated in theatrical programs, debating societies, literary journals, schools, and religious services. Theaters of Madness explores both the culture these rich offerings fomented and the asylum’s place in the fabric of nineteenth-century life, reanimating a time when the treatment of the insane was a central topic in debates over democracy, freedom, and modernity. Benjamin Reiss explores the creative lives of patients and the cultural demands of their doctors. Their frequently clashing views turned practically all of American culture—from blackface minstrel shows to the works of William Shakespeare—into a battlefield in the war on insanity. Reiss also shows how asylums touched the lives and shaped the writing of key figures, such as Emerson and Poe, who viewed the system alternately as the fulfillment of a democratic ideal and as a kind of medical enslavement. Without neglecting this troubling contradiction, Theaters of Madness prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.
Mental hospital
Author: Morton M. HUNT
Publisher:
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens
Author: E. Fuller Torrey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008-06-17
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0393068889
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Vital for all working in the mental health field . . . . Fascinating reading for anyone." —Choice E. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a disastrous swing in the balance of civil rights that has resulted in numerous violent episodes and left a vulnerable population of mentally ill people homeless and victimized. Interweaving in-depth accounts of landmark cases in California, Wisconsin, and North Carolina with a history of legislation and changes in the mental health care system, Torrey gives shape to the magnitude of our failure and outlines what needs to be done to reverse this ongoing—and accelerating—disaster. A new epilogue on the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, brings this tragic story up to date.
The Confinement of the Insane
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521283342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays explores the development of the lunatic asylum, and the concept of confinement for those considered insane, in different national contexts over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Leading scholars in the field of medical history have contributed extensive primary research through individual case studies in the context of the legal, social, economic, and political situations of thirteen different countries. The book represents the first truly international history of the mental hospital, and is, therefore, a landmark comparative study in the history of medicine.
