Beechwood lunatic asylum. a rather politically incorrect name by today’s standards, beechwood ‘lunatic’ asylum was, until its demise in the 1950’s, australia biggest mental hospital. it was famed for its bizarrely lax entry requirements. often, patients were not even fully assessed. But due to overcrowding in these facilities, isolation from society, and a limited understanding of mental health among doctors at the time, these asylums quickly devolved into sites of torture. patients endured brutal “treatments” like ice baths, electric shock therapy, purging, bloodletting, straitjackets, forced drugging, and even.
From the trans allegheny lunatic asylum to the english institution that inspired the word "bedlam," explore the dark history of insane asylums. insane asylums have a long, unsavory history — but they weren’t originally intended as sites of horror. the origins of mental asylums — an antiquated and loaded term that is now retired from the. Taunton state hospital. taunton state hospital in taunton, massachusetts is a currently operating psychiatric hospital (circa 1854). the hospital is said to be haunted by the ghosts of its frightening past. one of the few female serial killers, jane toppan, slaughtered 31 patients and a nurse in this hospital. 3.8. spring city, pa. as if being an actual abandoned, haunted asylum wasn't enough, pennhurst asylum (aka eastern pennsylvania state institution for the feeble minded and epileptic) operates as a haunted house during the halloween season. historically, it had a massive campus with 3,350 beds and was known for its often brutal treatment of. Here are 18 places where you can explore the ghosts of psychiatric history. an abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain. the abandoned husk of a mental.
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