Institutionalized: Mental Health Behind Bars
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James Burns is voluntarily spending 30 days in solitary confinement. Learn more at solitary.vice.com: http://bit.ly/2icVUGb
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America’s relationship with its mentally ill population continues to suffer as a result of inadequacies in the country’s mental health care system.
Asylum ~ Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
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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.
Sick: A Documentary
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This is a documentary about the mental health institutionalization of youth. It was completed as part of the social justice program at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It explores mental health institutions in the context of Irving Goffman's 'total institution' and looks at parallels between the institutionalization of youth in mental hospitals and the prison system.
1950s TREATMENT OF THE MENTALLY ILL MOVIE COLUMBUS STATE HOSPITAL 89534
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Created at the Columbus State Hospital in the 1950s, “City of the Sick” is a documentary about mental illness and the hospital itself, narrated by a fictional hospital attendant (Ken Kesey he's not).