02131nam a2200277Ia 450000100070000000500170000700800410002401000170006502000180008204000080010004100080010805000240011608200200014010000230016024501050018326000420028830000350033050400640036550511770042965000510160665000380165765000520169565000440174765000430179165000190183433161820240501145931.0150602s2012    ohuab    b   s001 0 eng    a  2011041136  a9780821419731  aBEA0 aeng00aRC445.O33bZ54 201200a362.21097712231 aZiff, Katherine K.10aAsylum on the hillbhistory of a healing landscapecKatherine Ziff ; foreword by Samuel T. Gladding.  aAthensbOhio University Presscc2012.  axiv, 220 p.bill., mapc27 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-213) and index.  a"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.12aHospitals, Psychiatric.xhistoryzOhio.2Local22aPsychiatryxhistoryzOhio.2Local22aProfessional - Patient Relations.zOhio.2Local22aMental DisordersxtherapyzOhio.2Local22aHistory- - 20th century.zOhio.2Local20aEmpathyzOhio.