So according to the syllabus, we must post something to our blog every Thursday that is related to the class or our project at hand. Since I am in love with video games, I thought that this post would be cool and unique! So I am not sure if any of you have heard of… Continue reading White Enamel
Monthly Archives: September 2021
Week#2: Friends Asylum for the Insane near Frankford.
Depicted above is a lithograph of the Friends’ Asylum for the Insane. Founded by the Society of Friends, Quakers, as The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the use of Their Reasons in 1813. Located outside of Philadelphia, PA, Friends’ Asylum was the first private psychiatric institution in the United States. The institution is […]
Mental Health America
This is a timeline of events regarding the organization of Mental Health America that was founded by Clifford Beers with the goal of better understanding mental health and mental illnesses. This timeline focuses mainly in the 20th century but is still very helpful in providing a general background of events regarding mental health in America.… Continue reading Mental Health America
Nellie Bly and Blackwell’s Island
This article from the Washington Post brings to light the work of Nellie Bly, a journalist in the late 1800s. In 1887, Bly committed herself to the asylum on Blackwell’s Island and discovered the atrocities and mistreatment of patients there. Her investigation is one of the leading causes of the reforms that Grob talked about …
Mental Health in Colonial America
Over the course of the past week we have been discussing the first few chapters of Gerald N. Grob’s The Mad Among Us, as well as several other documents from varying disciplines that address the beginnings of the history of mental health in Colo…
