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Asylum

Asylum goes behind the locked doors of B2, the chronic-care ward of Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital. Here patients who have been diagnosed as "chronic failures" remain hidden away from society. Part of the Man Alive series hosted by Roy Bonisteel.

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  • "History of the mental institution in America"
  • "Asylum: a history of the mental institution in America"@en

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  • "Asylum goes behind the locked doors of B2, the chronic-care ward of Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital. Here patients who have been diagnosed as "chronic failures" remain hidden away from society. Part of the Man Alive series hosted by Roy Bonisteel."@en
  • "This classic award-winning program brings to light the complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington D.C. It also debates whether deinstitutionalization has provided an overall failure, leaving more patients homeless than are mainstreamed into society, and if the time has come to reintroduce the asylum as a place of therapy and benign confinement."
  • "Focusing on Washington, D.C.'s St. Elizabeth's Hospital, examines society's treatment of mental patients over the past 130 years. Discusses the plight of deinstitutionalized, homeless mental patients."
  • "Follows society's struggle to find a humane and effective means of caring for the mentally ill. Features archival footage and interviews with former patients of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, national mental institution for over 130 years."@en
  • "The history of Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, the national mental institution in Washington, D.C., and the changes in American treatment of the mentally ill which the hospital's history reflects. When the first patient entered Saint Elizabeth's in 1855, he had the place all to himself. By 1950, with 7000 residents, the institution had changed from a haven to a crowded pen. The civil rights movement of the 1960s led to a general release of this patient population and the closing of much of the hospital, but questions of how best to treat the mentally ill remain unresolved."@en
  • "The history of Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, the national mental institution in Washington, D.C., and the changes in American treatment of the mentally ill which the hospital's history reflects. When the first patient entered Saint Elizabeth's in 1855, he had the place all to himself. By 1950, with 7000 residents, the institution had changed from a haven to a crowded pen. The civil rights movement of the 1960s led to a general release of this patient population and the closing of much of the hospital, but questions of how best to treat the mentally ill remain unresolved."
  • "A discussion of the social treatment of the mentally ill, from the institutional life in the American asylum of the 19th century, to today, where the mentally ill account for up to 50% of America's homeless."@en
  • "Over the last six months, reporter Claudia Murg conducted an undercover investigation into Britain's asylum system, during which she encountered gangs who flouted the rules and genuine claimants who have been kept in limbo for months."
  • "Over the last six months, reporter Claudia Murg conducted an undercover investigation into Britain's asylum system, during which she encountered gangs who flouted the rules and genuine claimants who have been kept in limbo for months."@en
  • "This classic, award-winning program brings to light the complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C."@en
  • "Friern Barnet Mental Hospital, North London, was Europe's largest mental asylum. It is now being transformed into Princess Park Manor, a luxurious residential development. Against a background of demolition and renovation, former patients recall their experiences and future residents outline their reasons for wishing to move in. Some patients look back to the sense of community as being the best part of their treatment, and regret its absence in their present lives, while those eager to move in are hoping to to find precisely that. An advertisement for the development, emphasising its wonderful amenities, states, "you don't have to leave the site". A former patient points out that this was precisely the former inmates' predicament."
  • "Examines the complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Also debates whether deinstitutionalization has proved an overall failure, leaving more patients homeless than are mainstreamed into society, and if the time has come to reintroduce the asylum as a place of therapy and benign confinement. Includes rare archival footage, interviews with former patients, and insights from mental health historians."
  • "Traces the history of how society has dealt with the mentally ill beginning in the early nineteenth century when insane asylums were first introduced. Presents the efforts of Dorothea Dix, an early pioneer in caring for the mentally ill. Documents the origins of neurological studies, psychoanalysis and experimental treatments to find causes and cures. Shows how after the civil activism of the 1960s to deinstitutionalize mental patients, there are still no effective solutions to the problem."@en
  • "Evolution of care for the mentally ill. This film by Sarah Mondale concludes that de-institutionalism must be considered a failure, but is scathing in its exposure of conditions in some mental hospitals. Includes rare footage of Sigmund Freud. Documentary from the United States."@en

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  • "Documentary television programs"
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  • "History"
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  • "Asylum"
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  • "Asylum a history of the mental institution in America"

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