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Out of Sight The Rise and Fall of the Asylum-Madness
Title
Out of Sight [electronic resource (video)] : The Rise and Fall of the Asylum-Madness / BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], c1991.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (59 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 13, 2012.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
Originally denoting a place of refuge, the word "asylum" became associated with brutal institutions for locking up people with mental illness. As attitudes about psychosis evolved reformers began to provide more humane shelter, but these soon devolved into overcrowded, prison-like facilities that were not much better than what had come before. This program traces the history of mental institutions, noting how theories of care reflected the social mores of the time. The advent of psychiatric drugs means more patients now live outside of hospitals, but without structured treatment many become homeless-raising the question of whether reform has gone far enough.
Variant and related titles
Rise and Fall of Asylum-Madness
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Madness: A Social History of Mental Illness
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
12 & up.
Contains surgical scenes of a graphic nature.
Contains surgical scenes of a graphic nature.
Contents
Lunatic Asylum (2:43)
Patients' Rights and the Homeless (2:27)
Visit to an Asylum (1:00)
Lunacy and Nothingness (2:49)
Kinds of Madness (2:00)
Bedlam (1:22)
Large Populations of Asylums (1:49)
Reforms in France (1:31)
Archaic Treatment Methods (3:45)
Practical Reforms (1:46)
Medical Profession: Monopoly on Care of Insane (2:13)
Moral Treatment of the Insane (2:05)
America open to new ideas (4:01)
Asylum as Sovereign Remedy (3:03)
Inmates as Victims (2:04)
Experimentation on the Insane (2:53)
Cranial Invasion (3:08)
Selective Breeding (3:15)
Shameful Conditions of Mental Patients (3:19)
Unknown and Invisible Inmates (2:00)
Organic Medicine for the Insane (2:13)
Humane Confinement (1:50)
Mentally Ill and Homelessness (1:25)
Credits: Out of Sight: The Rise and Fall of the Asylum-Madness (1:25)
Videorecording number
48754s Infobase
48756 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
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