Abandoned Asylums

Abandoned Asylums
Title Abandoned Asylums PDF eBook
Author Matt Van Der Velde
Publisher
Pages 240
Release 2016-10-01
Genre
ISBN 9782361951634

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Abandoned Asylums takes readers on an unrestricted visual journey inside America's abandoned state hospitals, asylums, and psychiatric facilities, the institutions where countless stories and personal dramas played out behind locked doors and out of public sight. The images captured by photographer Matt Van der Velde are powerful, haunting and emotive. A sad and tragic reality that these once glorious historical institutions now sit vacant and forgotten as their futures are uncertain and threatened with the wrecking ball. Explore a private mental hospital that treated Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities seeking safe haven. Or look inside the seclusion cells at an asylum that once incarcerated the now-infamous Charles Manson. Or see the autopsy theater at a Government Hospital for the Insane that was the scene for some of America's very first lobotomy procedures. With a foreward by renowned expert Carla Yanni examining their evolution and subsequent fall from grace, accompanying writings by Matt Van der Velde detailing their respective histories, Abandoned Asylums will shine some light on the glorious, and sometimes infamous institutions that have for so long been shrouded in darkness.

Trapped in the Abandoned Hospital

Trapped in the Abandoned Hospital
Title Trapped in the Abandoned Hospital PDF eBook
Author Dee Phillips
Publisher
Pages 32
Release 2016-08
Genre
ISBN 9781684020058

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Abandoned Hospitals

Abandoned Hospitals
Title Abandoned Hospitals PDF eBook
Author Alix Wood
Publisher Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Pages 34
Release 2016-12-15
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1482459000

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It seems peculiar that hospitals—places where people’s lives are saved—can be downright creepy once they’re abandoned. Leftover medical instruments, stained walls, and mysterious sounds all contribute to the unsettling feeling one gets once inside. Luckily, readers won’t have to travel to deserted hospitals around the world. They can tour them in the pages of this hair-raising volume. They’ll visit the Taunton State Hospital in Massachusetts, Old Changi Hospital in Singapore, and others. Plenty of history is mixed in with the odd anecdotes connected with each, and a chilling design and images add to the eerie ambience.

Haunted Asylums

Haunted Asylums
Title Haunted Asylums PDF eBook
Author E. R. Vernor
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages 276
Release 2017-10-22
Genre
ISBN 9781979079006

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The expanded edition of the author's best seller adds more asylums, and many more full color photographs. Go behind the barbed wire and explore the many sanitariums or asylums that were intended to help the mentally ill but only contributed to their afflictions. Learn the history behind the infamous Riverside patient Mary Mallon, also known as "Typhoid Mary." Get spooked by the gothic and foreboding buildings at Danvers State Hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts, which became both the inspiration and the filming location for the movie Session 9, and Oregon State Hospital, where Jack Nicholson's famous One Flew Over the Coco's Nest was filmed. Today, these abandoned state institutions have been converted into other uses or remain in shambles, but the ghosts of their pasts linger. The author, also known by the pen name Corvis Nocturnum, explores these reputedly haunted asylums and others all the world over

Asylum for the Insane

Asylum for the Insane
Title Asylum for the Insane PDF eBook
Author William A. Decker
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2008
Genre Psychiatric hospitals
ISBN 9781933926049

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Product Description: To establish the context within which the Kalamazoo Hospital came to be built, Decker begins the story in Europe in the previous centuries with historical antecedents, theories about mental illness and the treatment of mental disorders. These formative, primitive ideas were gradually adopted in this country where very little understanding of mental disorders existed. When the Kalamazoo State Hospital was founded, then named the Michigan Asylum for the Insane, in 1854, there were no private practitioners of psychiatry even in the largest cities. Psychiatry grew out of the exchange of information between the medical staff of these new public institutions. Dr. Decker gives readers a comprehensive view of Michigan s first psychiatric facility including the architectural style and plans, building descriptions and history, Legislative Acts regarding the operation and governance, personnel including Medical Directors, historical perspective on the causes of insanity, their treatment and services, noteworthy events and a complete bibliography and appendixes.

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
Title Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital PDF eBook
Author Rusty Tagliareni and Christina Mathews
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 128
Release 2016
Genre History
ISBN 1467116491

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The Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was more than a building; it embodied an entire era of uniquely American history, from the unparalleled humanitarian efforts of Dorothea Dix to the revolutionary architectural concepts of Thomas Story Kirkbride. After well over a century of service, Greystone was left abandoned in 2008. From the time it closed until its demolition in 2015, Greystone became the focal point of a passionate preservation effort that drew national attention and served to spark the public's interest in historical asylum preservation. Many of the images contained in this book were rescued from the basement of Greystone in 2002 and have never been seen by the public. They appear courtesy of the Morris Plains Museum and its staff, who spent many hours digitally archiving the photographs so that future generations may better know Greystone's history.

Abandoned Asylums of Connecticut

Abandoned Asylums of Connecticut
Title Abandoned Asylums of Connecticut PDF eBook
Author L.F. Blanchard and Tammy Rebello
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 96
Release 2016
Genre History
ISBN 1467124583

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This collection of photographs, history, and firsthand accounts gives readers a glimpse at the roots of mental health. These vignettes are born of the personal stories of those who worked at these facilities, those who were institutionalized, and their families. The authors took the time to listen to their stories and endeavored to understand their past and recognize how these events continue to influence the mental health industry today. Pictured throughout are the physical relics of the places--the now largely abandoned asylums of Connecticut--where these stories unfurled.