Books+ Search Results
Asylum history of the mental institution in America
Title
Asylum [electronic resource (video)] : history of the mental institution in America / Stone Lantern Films.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2006], c1989.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sd., col., digital.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on June 04, 2006.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
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. Rare archival footage, interviews with former patients, and insights from mental health historians David Rothman, of Columbia University, and Gerald Grob, of Rutgers University, make this a documentary not to be missed.
Variant and related titles
History of the mental institution in America
Films on demand.
Other formats
Original produced: Stone Lantern Films, 1989
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
12 & up.
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)
Neurology and the Case of Charles Guiteau (4:47)
Sigmund Freud Introduces Psychotherapy (3:16)
Searching for a Cure: Patient Experiments (4:05)
Community Treatment Facilities (2:39)
Break-Through in Psychiatric Medications (4:28)
Deinstitutionalization Movement (6:32)
The Homeless Mentally Ill (4:16)
A Positive Asylum Experience (3:12)
The Future of Asylums (3:21)
Videorecording number
32651 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Stone Lantern Films.
Bookmark As
Citation
