03349nam 2200625Ia 450 991082179110332120240405030817.00-8214-2341-X0-8214-4426-3(CKB)2670000000187367(EBL)1773380(OCoLC)889675573(SSID)ssj0000611354(PQKBManifestationID)11381310(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611354(PQKBWorkID)10665987(PQKB)11412220(MiAaPQ)EBC1773380(OCoLC)782056216(MdBmJHUP)muse17797(Au-PeEL)EBL1773380(CaPaEBR)ebr10539260(EXLCZ)99267000000018736720110930d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAsylum on the hill history of a healing landscape /Katherine Ziff ; foreword by Samuel T. Gladding1st ed.Athens, OH Ohio University Pressc20121 online resource (235 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8214-1973-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-213) and index.Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: The Moral Treatment Experiment; Chapter Two: Patients; Chapter Three: Architecture; Chapter Four: Politics; Chapter Five: Landscape; Chapter Six: Caregivers; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index"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. Built in Southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied the nineteenth-century "gold standard" specifications of moral treatment. 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. Although ultimately doomed by overcrowding and overshadowed by the rise of new models of psychiatry, for twenty years the therapeutic community at Athens pursued moral treatment therapy with energy and optimism. 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"--Provided by publisher.State hospitalsOhioAthensHistoryPsychiatric hospitalsOhioAthensHistoryPsychiatric hospital careHistoryMental illnessTreatmentHistoryState hospitalsHistory.Psychiatric hospitalsHistory.Psychiatric hospital careHistory.Mental illnessTreatmentHistory.362.2109771Ziff Katherine K1168025MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821791103321Asylum on the hill4006131UNINA