Posted by Wittgensteinz on February 14, 2008, at 3:45:11
In reply to The Willard Suitcase exhibit, posted by zazenducke on February 12, 2008, at 11:53:12
Thanks for the link. I found this site fascinating and deeply moving. The history of asylums and mental institutions is very interesting to me. I was reading just the other day about the history of Meninger and how the rise of managed care has had such an effect on its resources and led to its relocation.
It's amazing that there were still patients kept locked up in institutions (ok, by this point they were institutionalised so perhaps alternatives were limited) right up into the 70s/80s/90s - the seemingly trivial reasons for their admittance, the lack of treatment and reassessment are disturbing.
Witti
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