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29 Haunting Photos From Mental Asylums From The Past

these are places you didn't want to end up

By Nathan Johnson

Published 8 years ago in Creepy

these are places you didn't want to end up

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Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA insane asylum, 1870’s.

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Patients sit inside Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.

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Hydrotherapy first used in the early 1900s, Immersion in a tub of water to make a patient relax when agitated or relieve some ailment, lasted a few hours to overnight. 1936.

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An insanity mask from the 17th century.

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In the late 19th century it was a widely held belief that masturbation caused insanity and devices such as this were designed to prevent the wearer from touching or stimulating himself. They were often used in mental institutions.

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An x-ray of needles driven into the flesh by a self-harming patient.

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Patients in steam cabinets in 1910.

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Self-harm in 1964.

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Washington, D.C., circa 1921. “Foundling Hospital, playroom.” Tots at the Washington Asylum for ‘Foundlings’.

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Sections of brain encased in wax. West Park Mental Hospital Mortuary.

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Cuenca, Spain, 1961 Insane asylum.

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Mechanical slapping massage device at BC sanitarium.

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Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry. Man in restraints, B, violent ward. 1945.

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Pilgrim State Hospital Brentwood NY, USA 1940s.

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Reasons for Admission

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A patient sits in a restraint chair at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, England in 1869.

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A patient undergoing lateral cerebral diathermia treatment in the early 1920’s. Diathermia used a galvanized current to jolt psychosis sufferers. Doctors eventually deemed it unsafe and unreliable.

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An insane asylum patient restrained by warders, Yorkshire, 1869, Henry Clarke.

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Female patients receiving Radium Therapy, early 20th century.

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Serbian Psychiatric Hospital. Photo taken by George Georgiou who worked in Kosovo and Serbia between 1999 and 2002.

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A surgeon uses a brace and bit to drill into a patient’s skull before performing a lobotomy at a mental hospital in England, November 1946.

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Lobotomy tools.

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One of Walter Freeman’s lobotomy patients ten days after the procedure. 1942.

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Pioneering and prolific lobotomist Dr. Walter Freeman performs a lobotomy with an instrument similar to an ice pick at Western State Hospital in Lakewood, Washington on July 11, 1949. The procedure turned most ‘problem’ patients into zombies.

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Patients sit inside Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.

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Nurses hold down a patient receiving electroshock treatment at a facility in England on November 23, 1946.

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A patient at a mental hospital undergoes electroshock treatment in 1956.

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A patient sits inside Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.

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The Pilgram Psychiatric Center in Long Island, NY, USA could house as many as 14,000 patients at a time. This self-sufficient mental asylum adopted extremely aggressive methods of “curing the insane”. Lobotomies and electric shock therapy were the norm. The doctors at this asylum started using large doses of insulin and metrozol to drive patients into a violent coma, just to be rid of them.

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