02301nam a2200313Ia 4500 248232 248232 331618 20240501145931.0 150602s2012 ohuab b s001 0 eng 2011041136 9780821419731 BEA eng beag RC445.O33 Z54 2012 362.2109771 23 Ziff, Katherine K. 293361 Asylum on the hill history of a healing landscape Katherine Ziff ; foreword by Samuel T. Gladding. Athens Ohio University Press c2012. xiv, 220 p. ill., map 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-213) and 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. Hospitals, Psychiatric. history Ohio. 112482 Local Psychiatry history Ohio. 154678 Local Professional - Patient Relations. Ohio. 154153 Local Mental Disorders therapy Ohio. 135246 Local History- - 20th century. Ohio. 235426 Local Empathy Ohio. 91690 6 RC445.033Z54 0 0 lcc 0 RC0445 O33 Z54 02012 0 beal 201396 4 4 33 2016-05-27 Amazon 28.79 534337 0 RC445.O33 Z54 2012 91000000044156 2023-09-27 17:27:02 0 38.79 r:331618 6