Creepy Images From Old School Mental Institutions
Horrific look at how the mentally ill were treated back in the day.
By DoctorMolestro
Published 7 years ago in Creepy
Horrific look at how the mentally ill were treated back in the day.
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A "Lunatics Chair" given to patients who had poor behavior or wild outbursts in a Dutch mental hospital in 1938.
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Patients receive treatment while restrained in a steam box in Milledgeville State Hospital in Georgia, US in 1908.
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A patient in a restraining chair at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England in 1869.
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A nurse prepares a patient for electro-shock therapy in Central State Hospital in Kentucky, US in 1951.
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Mental patients participating in Dance Therapy in New York State Asylum, US in 1922.
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A woman is restrained in an Asylum in France in 1900.
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2 Doctors show off the large electro-shock machine at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1923.
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Women receiving radium therapy in the Serbian Psychiatric Hospital in Serbia in 1907.
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Patients wrapped in large wet towels with wet cloths on their heads for hydrotherapy (continuous showers, baths and being wet) in St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1886.
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And for the curious, here are the reasons a person would be committed to a mental hospital in West Virginia between 1864 and 1889.
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