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This award-winning program brings to light the complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. It also debates whether deinstitutionalization has prove...
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Contents
Is There a Need for Asylums? (2:41) -- Dorothea Dix: Improving Conditions for the Mentally Ill (4:18) -- Disappointing Results of Moral Therapy (4:24) -- Asylum Populations Grow (4:03) -- Mistreatment and Abuse Reported in Asylums (3:30) -- Neurol...
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