The Age of Asylums Although “asylum” is the commonly used term, the Baghdadian facilities were actually far more akin to hospitals where the mentally ill could receive care and protection. So-called “Insane Asylums” became extremely prevalent in Europe during the 1600s but were far from...
It will be remembered that most psychiatric disorders were given the broad description of “insanity” in those days, with affected individuals being sent to insane asylums. Even if Mr. Wellington had truly dabbled in the “medicine of the mind,” the term psychiatry and psychiatrist would have...
AF: So Aubrey Lewis was probably the most influential psychiatrist in postwar Britain: he was clinical director of the Maudsley Hospital in south London and the first professor of psychiatry (from 1946 to 1966) at its medical school, renamed the Institute of Psychiatry in 1946. The hospital and...
Here is a tag that puts MAGA to shame: Give me a presidential candidate whose supporters rally around the MAGGOT credo: Make America’s Great Goodness Overcome Tyrants – and tyrants in all their deceptive guises and delusionally pretty packaging. Between now and the Presidential election of Nov...
As it is, our asylums are filled with this class, and that introduces another phase of the matter. Our asylum insane are largely recruited from the Jewish race, at least recruited in tremendous disproportion to their number in the population. The fact that the revolutionary movement is so lar...
Members could live in harmony Dorothea Dix fought for insane asylums for the mentally ill criminals Abolition People who fought against slavery Emancipation The freeing of slaves William Lloyd Garrison White abolitionist who was the editor of the liberator Manifest destiny The idea that the USA would...
By the 1850s, both Sisters were operating asylums in New York City. The Sisters of Mercy had a home on Houston Street to provide protection, especially for young women coming into the city as immigrants. The Sisters of the Good Shepard had an asylum on 30th Street. The Charitable Christian...
(especially when taking into regard the improved technologies), the property remained nationalized, the ownership of Lithuanian symbols and any criticism of communism or the Soviet occupation were still punished by long terms of imprisonment (in jails or insane asylums) and the Lithuanians living in...
. Pellagra sufferers (“pellagrins”) subsisted on corn; pellagra, it had long been thought, was all about corn. Unsurprisingly, then, it did not stop at the borders of southern mill towns. It also victimized the corn-fed residents of state-run institutions: orphanages, prisons, asylums....
I’d fully intended to move away from the subject of insane asylums and talk about a cowgirl from Oklahoma by the name of Lucille Mulhall. But I cannot in good conscience leave the subject without telling what I’ve learned about the barbaric brain surgeon responsible for Rosemary Kennedy’s...