An Insight Into An Insane Asylum

Experiences in the Insane Hospital of Alabama.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. Writ Of habeas corpus--Dr. Guild--The Margin Op The Christian Herald, And Spectacle-case -- The Note Intercepted -- Davis Prosecuted -- Nearly Dead--T. Jones Saved My Life--Hunger. FEW days after I went there I concluded I would come out by writ of habeas corpus. I was placed in the extreme west end of the hospital, and through the window of my cell, eighth ward, could overlook the grounds they were preparing for the extension of the building. A white man by the name of Davis with some half dozen negroes were digging out the foundation. They had been digging there for several days. I talked with them through the grates until I got their ear and their sympathy. They promised me they would carry a note to Dr. Guild, an old friend with whom I lodged during the Annual Conference held in Tuscaloosa in 1879, if I could get it to them. So I wrote on the margin of my Chris6 "(81) s tian Herald to the doctor, and asked him to see Bros. Slaughter and Wilson and get them to see two attorneys, Powell and Wood, who had been recommended as able lawyers, and get them to come immediately and prosecute for me and bring me out. I prepared my note, but getting it out was the trouble. I found there were two grates, an inner and outer grate, and if I undertook to throw it out and it should strike either and fall on the sill of the window, I could not get it back or forth, as I had nothing with which to reach it. At length I thought of my spectacle-case, which was metal and heavy. I took out my spectacles and placed the note within and closed the case. I then looked to see if there was any one in the yard beside the workmen, and calling their attention, aimed as well as I could to miss the bars of iron. It struck the outer bar and the case opened, ...

Discover an unforgettable memoir written by Mary Huestis Pengilly. This powerful book provides a rare look into the life of a 19th-century psychiatric patient and offers valuable insights into mental health and societal stigma. A must-read for anyone interested in the human experience.

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance. Focusing on Pennsylvania, the state that ran one of the largest mental health systems in the country, Parsons tracks how the lack of community-based services, a fear-based politics around mental illness, and the economics of institutions meant that closing mental hospitals fed a cycle of incarceration that became an epidemic. This groundbreaking book recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals and mental health policy making. In doing so, she offers critical insight into how the prison took the place of the asylum in crucial ways, shaping the rise of the prison industrial complex.

The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of the place itself – its architecture, funding and purpose – and at the experience of those who were sent there.

Andrew Sheffield's letters help us better understand the full range of behavior among women in the Victorian South & the limits of Southern womanhood near the end of the nineteenth century.

This is my story from being sane to committed. I hope it helps you gain an inside perspective of the Revolving door of the mentally ill.

Read Planet Earth: Insane Asylum to Discover— • How to Defeat Destructive Beliefs • How to Recognize Deadly Beliefs • How to Remove Detrimental Beliefs • How to Replace Damaging Beliefs Planet Earth: Insane Asylum for the Universe, Second Edition • Includes Lists of 264 Faulty & Deadly Beliefs • Includes Lists of 193 Thinking Errors • Includes a Total of 31 Tables or Images Intercepted Alien Reports • This book consists of intercepted reports sent by aliens visiting Earth back to their home world. • We know neither what aliens are making these reports nor what they are receiving. • Only by accident have these reports been intercepted by our secret SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) project. • This particular project of ours focuses on microwave frequencies because there are few natural sources of emissions in the microwave range. • You can volunteer to be a part of a SETI project (not one of ours) by contacting http://www.setileague.org/. Disturbing Reports by Aliens • There is no doubt that these reports are alarming. • However, we are optimistic that these reports will not be taken seriously by authorities until it is too late to stop their publication. • Still, please make plans now to safeguard your copies by buying and hiding extra copies. • Profits from the publication of this report will be used to fund the publication and release of more reports. • Therefore, after sharing your copy, please encourage others to purchase copies of this report for themselves. Planet Earth: Insane Asylum Is Being Sold as Fiction Please note that this book is being disseminated as fiction for two reasons. First and foremost, we believe that, as fiction, the publication of this book will be neither stopped nor delayed. Second, we would prefer that each human decide what was factual and fictional about these reports. Author of Planet Earth: Insane Asylum • For style and consistency, one of our members has been chosen to be the author of this book. • However, readers will notice that the book still speaks with the voice of “we” because all of us assigned to the SETI project that intercepted these reports have voiced our concerns and approval regarding every page of this book. • The single author of this book apologizes in advance for any mistakes in meaning that have occurred during the transcription of the captured extraterrestrial signals. • The single author of this book is solely responsible for all the mistakes and contents of this book.