Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing Landscape
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (508 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0821419730 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 204 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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flo said The Healing Landscape, revealed. Author, Katherine Ziff has done a remarkable thing in this book "Asylum on the Hill History of a Healing Landscape". She has written a well researched and engaging book that appeals to a wide range of readers. There is something in it for anyone who is interested in Psychology, Soci. bookworm said Amazing history. Having worked in the mental health industry for many years, I have always been interested in the evolution of care. I found this to be well researched and written. I'm also very excited that the Ohio University has chosen to preserve and use this landmark instead of having it fall i. "Great history of Athens asylum" according to Sharon W. Formerly being from Athens, this book was especially interesting to me. Back in the 1950s-60s the grounds were open for the public. As children we often went there to fish in the pond and have picnics. It used to frighten us when we got close to the patient buildings and could see p
Gladding, Wake Forest University . This book is more than a history of a time, a place, a movement, and a people. It is instead a sensitive and centered examination her portraits of people who influenced the asylum are wonderfully rendered alive and moving.” Samuel T. Anyone who peruses Ziff’s work will not have an easy time putting it down
Built in Southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied the nineteenth-century gold standard” specifications of moral treatment. Asylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Stories of patients and their families, politicians, caregivers, and community illustrate how a village in the coalfields of the Hocking River Valley responded to a national impulse to provide compassionate care based on a curative landscape, exposure to the arts, outdoor exercise, useful occupation, and personal attention from a physician. Ziff’s fresh presentation of America’s nineteenth-century asylum movement shows how the Athens Lunatic Asylum accommodated political, economic, community, family, and individual needs and left an architectural legacy that has been uniquely renovated and repurposed.