Asylum on the hill
Ziff, Katherine K.
Asylum on the hill history of a healing landscape / [electronic resource] : Katherine Ziff ; foreword by Samuel T. Gladding. - Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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, politicians, caregivers, and community illustrate how a village in the coalfields of the Hocking River Valley responded to a national impulse to provide compassionate care based on a curative landscape, exposure to the arts, outdoor exercise, useful occupation, and personal attention from a physician. Although ultimately doomed by overcrowding and overshadowed by the rise of new models of psychiatry, for twenty years the therapeutic community at Athens pursued moral treatment therapy with energy and optimism. Ziff's fresh presentation of America's nineteenth-century asylum movement shows how the Athens Lunatic Asylum accommodated political, economic, community, family, and individual needs and left an architectural legacy that has been uniquely renovated and repurposed"--Provided by publisher.
9780821444269
Athens Lunatic Asylum (Athens, Ohio)
Psychiatry--history--Ohio.
Professional-Patient Relations--Ohio.
Mental Disorders--therapy--Ohio.
History, 19th Century--Ohio.
Empathy--Ohio.
Hospitals, Psychiatric--history--Ohio.
Electronic books.
362.2109771
Asylum on the hill history of a healing landscape / [electronic resource] : Katherine Ziff ; foreword by Samuel T. Gladding. - Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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, politicians, caregivers, and community illustrate how a village in the coalfields of the Hocking River Valley responded to a national impulse to provide compassionate care based on a curative landscape, exposure to the arts, outdoor exercise, useful occupation, and personal attention from a physician. Although ultimately doomed by overcrowding and overshadowed by the rise of new models of psychiatry, for twenty years the therapeutic community at Athens pursued moral treatment therapy with energy and optimism. Ziff's fresh presentation of America's nineteenth-century asylum movement shows how the Athens Lunatic Asylum accommodated political, economic, community, family, and individual needs and left an architectural legacy that has been uniquely renovated and repurposed"--Provided by publisher.
9780821444269
Athens Lunatic Asylum (Athens, Ohio)
Psychiatry--history--Ohio.
Professional-Patient Relations--Ohio.
Mental Disorders--therapy--Ohio.
History, 19th Century--Ohio.
Empathy--Ohio.
Hospitals, Psychiatric--history--Ohio.
Electronic books.
362.2109771