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Title
Asylum: A History of the Mental Institution in America
Subject
History
Local History
St. Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
Mental illness -- Treatment.
Description
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 proved an overall failure, leaving more patients homeless than are mainstreamed into society, and if the time has come to reintroduce the asylum as a place of therapy and benign confinement.
The film uses rare archival footage, interviews with former patients, and insights from mental health historians David Rothman, of Columbia University, and Gerald Grob, of Rutgers University, to constuct the narrative.
The film uses rare archival footage, interviews with former patients, and insights from mental health historians David Rothman, of Columbia University, and Gerald Grob, of Rutgers University, to constuct the narrative.
Creator
Mondale, Sarah
Source
Grant - 87-03-08
Publisher
Stone Lantern Films
Date
1989
Rights
Copyright Stone Lantern Films
Format
VHS
.wmv
Language
English
Type
Documentary
Identifier
02.03.1987
139
Coverage
Ward 8
Congress Heights
Moving Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
VHS
Duration
00:58:24
Compression
.wmv
Producer
Mondale, Sarah
Patton, Sarah
Director
Mondale, Sarah
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