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Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing Landscape
Asylum on the Hill
is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Built in Southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied the nineteenth-century “gold standard” specifications of moral treatment. Stories of patients and their families, politici...more
Hardcover, 204 pages
Published
March 20th 2012
by Ohio University Press
(first published February 15th 2012)
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While admittedly this book has a limited audience (people interested in psychiatric history, the history of the Kirkbride plan or the history of Athens), it was a very good look at those three things. The Athens Lunatic Asylum (now known as the Ridges) was a Kirkbride hospital emphasizing nature and natural light as part of the treatment plan for the mentally ill.
I met the author at a talk she was giving about the book. Both talk and book were very interesting. It’s laid out so it progresses n...more
I met the author at a talk she was giving about the book. Both talk and book were very interesting. It’s laid out so it progresses n...more
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Anyone who has attended Ohio University or lived in Athens knows of the Athens Mental Health Center (fka The Athens Lunatic Asylum). As a child, I remember it when it still had patients and was fairly self-sufficient, growing its' own food, generating its' own power, etc. Even though Ohio University has taken over the land and now uses it for classes, storage and an art museum, many of the spooky aspects remain (the hundreds of graves with only patient numbers and no names; the dark, Gothic bric...more
This asylum is very near where I live. I've been inside part of it as it's now reclaimed by Ohio University and is an art museum. This book is a very readable account of the moral treatment plan by Dr. Kirkbride, the history of the Athens Lunatic Asylum and the history of Athens as well. It was fascinating.
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