Oregon State Hospital's Dark History
Oregon State Hospital's Dark History

Author: Sharron Alire

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-05-14

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13:

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Explore the history of mental illness and its treatments through this book about Oregon's historic State Hospital, formerly known as the Oregon Insane Asylum. The 130-year-old hospital was once used as the filming location for the Academy Award-winning movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". In the 2,500 square-foot exhibit space, operated by a non-profit organization in the original Asylum facility, you will discover artifacts, documents, photographs and recordings that share the stories of the people who have lived and worked in the hospital. In addition to diagnostic and treatment equipment, the museum includes artifacts from the Hospital's farms, workshops, tunnels and wards.

Oregon Asylum
Oregon Asylum

Author: Diane L. Goeres-Gardner

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439643520

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The Oregon State Insane Asylum was opened in Salem on October 23, 1883, and is one of the oldest continuously operated mental hospitals on the West Coast. In 1913, the name was changed to the Oregon State Hospital (OSH). The history of OSH parallels the development and growth in psychiatric knowledge throughout the United States. Oregon was active in the field of electroshock treatments, lobotomies, and eugenics. At one point, in 1959, there were more than 3,600 patients living on the campus. The Oscar-winning movie One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest was filmed inside the hospital in 1972. In 2008, the entire campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and the state began a $360-million restoration project to bring the hospital to modern standards. The story of OSH is one of intrigue, scandal, recovery, and hope.

Inside Oregon State Hospital
Inside Oregon State Hospital

Author: Diane L. Goeres-Gardner

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-05-21

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1625844964

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A look inside the historic mental hospital that served as the location for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—includes photos. Seen through the eyes of those who lived there, this book examines the world of a mental hospital established in Salem, Oregon, in 1883—where, in desperate attempts to cure their patients, physicians injected them with deadly medications, cut holes in their heads, and sterilized them. Years of insufficient funding caused the hospital to decay into a crumbling, understaffed facility, which was later used as the setting for the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Today, after a $360 million makeover, Oregon State Hospital is a modern treatment hospital for the state’s civil and forensic mentally ill. In this compelling account of the institution’s tragedies and triumphs, author Diane Goeres-Gardner offers an unparalleled look at the very human story of Oregon’s historic asylum.

Ward 81
Ward 81

Author: Mary Ellen Mark

Publisher: Damiani Limited

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788862080552

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Belief in the coming of a Messiah poses a genuine dilemma. From a Jewish perspective, the historical record is overwhelmingly against it. If, despite all the tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people, no legitimate Messiah has come forward, has the belief not been shown to be groundless? Yet for all the problems associated with messianism, the historical record also shows it is an idea with enormous staying power. The prayer book mentions it on page after page. The great Jewish philosophers all wrote about it. Secular thinkers in the twentieth century returned to it and reformulated it. And victims of the Holocaust invoked it in the last few minutes of their life. This book examines the staying power of messianism and formulates it in a way that retains its redemptive force without succumbing to mythology.

South Carolina State Hospital, The: Stories from Bull Street
South Carolina State Hospital, The: Stories from Bull Street

Author: William Buchheit

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 146714472X

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Nearly two decades after it closed, the South Carolina State Hospital continues to hold a palpable mystique in Columbia and throughout the state. Founded in 1821 as the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, it housed, fed and treated thousands of patients incapable of surviving on their own. The patient population in 1961 eclipsed 6,600, well above its listed capacity of 4,823, despite an operating budget that ranked forty-fifth out of the forty-eight states with such large public hospitals. By the mid-1990s, the patient population had fallen under 700, and the hospital had become a symbol of captivity, horror and chaos. Author William Buchheit details this history through the words and interviews of those who worked on the iconic campus.

Library of Dust
Library of Dust

Author: David Maisel

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2008-09-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780811863339

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Esteemed photographer David Maisel has created a somber and beautiful series of images depicting canisters containing the cremated remains of the unclaimed dead from an Oregon psychiatric hospital. Dating back as far as the nineteenth century, these canisters have undergone chemical reactions, causing extravagant blooms of brilliant white, green, and blue corrosion, revealing unexpected beauty in the most unlikely of places. This stately volume is both a quietly astonishing body of fine art from a preeminent contemporary photographer, and an exceptionally poignant monument to the unknown deceased.

The Past of Oregon State Hospital: a Look Inside the Historic Mental Hospital
The Past of Oregon State Hospital: a Look Inside the Historic Mental Hospital

Author: Bradford Petrick

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-14

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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Explore the history of mental illness and its treatments through this book about Oregon's historic State Hospital, formerly known as the Oregon Insane Asylum. The 130-year-old hospital was once used as the filming location for the Academy Award-winning movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". In the 2,500 square-foot exhibit space, operated by a non-profit organization in the original Asylum facility, you will discover artifacts, documents, photographs and recordings that share the stories of the people who have lived and worked in the hospital. In addition to diagnostic and treatment equipment, the museum includes artifacts from the Hospital's farms, workshops, tunnels and wards.

MD/MBA
MD/MBA

Author: Arthur Lazarus

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Physicians in the process of choosing medical management as a specialty need information about themselves and their options in order to make informed decisions. This book offers physicians guidance in assessing professional and personal strengths, developing self-marketing strategies, identifying and evaluating alternatives to conventional practics, and approaching career transitions in an organized way.

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.

Haunted Salem, Oregon
Haunted Salem, Oregon

Author: Tim King

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 1

ISBN-13: 1467138134

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Salem's haunted tales date back to the 1830s, when indigenous tribes, trappers and homesteaders shared the lush Willamette Valley. Murders, hangings and dark underground passageways defined the city's early days as the Willamette River moved old stern-wheelers up to the city's docks. Today, the sounds of those phantom vessels can be heard plying along the river late at night. Oregon's capital city has long been the site of mental hospitals, prisons and other notorious institutions, famously depicted in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The residual effects of decades of torture and depravity cling to the old facilities in both sight and sound. Author Tim King examines many of these chilling encounters along with eyewitness accounts of spirits that refuse to be quiet.