In Search of Asylum: A Road Trip through the History of American Mental Health Care
| Autor: | Polhamus, Andrew John |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
American Studies
Architecture Public Health Psychology Mental Health Journalism Landscape Architecture History Fine Arts American History mental health care insane asylums mental hospitals psychiatric hospitals Kirkbride buildings Thomas Story Kirkbride bipolar disorder medical history psychiatry memoir literary journalism travel writing mental illness Victorian medicine |
| Druh dokumentu: | Text |
| Popis: | The Kirkbride plan for American mental hospitals first took hold in the late 1840s and remained the most popular floor plan for insane asylums for the next forty years. Kirkbride asylums were considered vital, scientifically advanced centers of mental health treatment throughout the nineteenth century, but quickly became outdated, overcrowded, understaffed, and dilapidated. Today only about one-third of the original Kirkbride buildings constructed from the 1840s to the 1890s remain standing, but their impact on the national imagination is both enormous and permanent. This thesis for the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at The Ohio State University is a combination of memoir and literary journalism documenting the origins, lifespan, decline, and historic preservation of Kirkbride asylums around the continental United States, as well as the author’s own experiences with bipolar disorder and psychiatric care. |
| Databáze: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
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