| Book/Article: "Christmas In
Purgatory: A Photographic Essay On Mental Retardation"
by Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan
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A deeply moving photographic essay series.
The photos and captions will likely bring you to tears.
DisabilityMuseum.org/lib/docs/1782.htm
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Article: "Ten Days In A Mad-House" (1887)
by Nellie Bly
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Amazing! Nellie Bly was a reporter
who risked her health and safety by going into Blackwell Island's
Lunatic Asylum pretending to be a patient:
disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1123.htm
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Book: "Will There Really Be a Tomorrow"
by Frances Farmer
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I cannot say enough about this
book. IT IS THE MOST
MOVING PERSONAL PATIENT ACCOUNT I HAVE READ TO DATE.
Miss Farmer was a famous actress who ended up institutionalized
in Washington State. This story is rather graphic
at times, but it is so worth the read.
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Article/Book: "Narratives of Madness, as
Told From Within"
By GAIL A. HORNSTEIN
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Book that contains hundreds of accounts/narratives of madness
written by patients
chronicle.com/free/v48/i20/20b00701.htm
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Article: Washington Post "Invisible
Lives"
by Katherine Boo
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A pulitzer prize winning expose
series on years of abuse of developmentally disabled DC citizens:
boo8.html
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Article/Book: "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"
(1947)
by Frank L Wright Jr.
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I was ready to buy the book, but a friend
sent me the link to the entire book for free online. I love this
book, and quote the author's words heavily in my galleries. This
is my #2favorite patient account of life "Inside:"
Disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1754.htm
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Book: "Women of the Asylum: Voices
from Behind the Walls"
by Jeffrey L. Geller & Maxine Harris
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Excellent book! Authors bring together
26 personal accounts of asylum experience by women patients. This
includes an incredible chapter taken from one of Frances Farmer's
books |
Article: "Long-Forgotten Reminders of Oregon's
Mentally Ill"
by SARAH KERSHAW
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Article on patient remains n urns "rediscovered" from
Oregon. Includes photos of the artistically decorated urns:
nytimes.com/2005/03/14/national...
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Article: "Astounding Disclosures! Three Years
In A Mad House"
by Isaac H. Hunt
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Full Text (for free!) patient account of three years inside Maie
Insane Hospital. Includes the patient-author's account of the abuse
of patients other than himself., "some of which are tantamount
to murder:"
Disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/736.htm
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Book/Article: "Modern Persecution, or Insane
Asylums Unveiled" (1874)
by Elizabeth Packard
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Full text for free. Patient account from 1874, includes photos.
Disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1662.htm
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Book: "The Invisible Plaugue"
by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. and Judy Miller
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Quality history of psychiatry. Includes many items that other psychiatry
historical chronologies do not include. |
Book: "The Lobotomist"...............................
by jack El-Hai
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Biography of the "Mad Scientist," Dr. Walter Freeman who
developed a heinlous technique for frontal lobotomies which involved
ice picks through a patients eyes. |
Book: "Gracefully Insane"
by Alex Beam
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Lots of history and almost "gossip" from the famous
Mclean Hospital, which was for the more well-to-do patients. Starts
off slow but then really gets interesting later in the book.
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Book: "A History of Psychiatry"
by Edward Shorter
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Fantastic descriptions and history, plus a few amazing photos, including
some of hydrotherapy and different types of shock treatment. |
Book: "A Social History of the Asylum"
by Thomas G. Ebert |
Includes many charts. Two chapters on early asylum and poor houses.
Also includes historic info on Wisconsin's state mental hospital,
Outgamie County Asylum for the Insane, and treatment in Milwaukee. |
Book: "The Age of Madness"
by Thomas Szasz |
A collection of articles and stories about institutionalization.
I particularly enjoyed Chapter 17, "The Machine in Ward 11,"
Chapter 13 "The Unicorn in The Garden" and Chapter 10
" Out of Sight, out of Mind"
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Book: "Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation
of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
by Erving Goffman |
This book really goes into the concept of "total institutions"
and includes a lot of info on prisons, insane asylums and other forms
of total institution. Talks about the way the "institutionees"
adjust to their environments. Excellent info about St. Elizabeth's. |
Article: "Conditions In Mental Hospitals"
(1946)
by Harmon Wilkinson |
A letter from a staff member of a NE "state school"
(school/asylum for the developmentally disabled) which I found quite
touching:
Disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1719.htm |
Article: "Popular Feeling Towards Hospitals
For The Insane" (1852)
by Isaac Ray |
From the article: "On the best methods of saving our
Hospitals for the Insane from the odium and scandal to
which such Institutions are liable..."
Disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1124.htm |
Book: "The Shame of the States"
by Albert Deutsch |
description coming soon. |
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