Mental Hospitals: Then & Now (Documentary)
Published in Documentary Blog
This is a short documentary talking about mental hospitals from the past, and comparing them with current ones of the present. The experiences discussed by people interviewed in the video really did happen to them.
Asylum ~ Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
Published in Documentary Blog
Skip to 1:03 for talk (Toured 70 Hospitals in 30 States)
For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients.