Papers Not People: A History of the Asylum in the U.S.

Kim and her history lessons! This week, Kim gives Jilli a rundown on the mental asylum in the U.S. The ladies learn that if this were the 1800s, they'd have been committed several times over. Medical practices were wild back in the not-so-distant day and things even get a little spooky at the end.

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Sources:

Willard Asylum Suitcases https://www.willardsuitcases.com/

Danvers State Hospital https://www.danversstatehospital.org/

Delong, W. 2018, April 30. Why Danvers State Hospital Ranks Among History's Most Infamous Asylums. All That's Interesting. https://allthatsinteresting.com/danvers-state-hospital

Eisenberg, L & Guttmacher, L.B. 2010, July 20. Were we all asleep at the switch? A personal reminiscence of psychiatry from 1940 to 2010. Wiley Online Library. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0447.2010.01544.x

Gellar, J. 2019, March 14. The Rise and Demise of America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: a Tale of Dollars Trumping Sense. Psychiatric News. https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2019.3b29

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