history of a healing landscape Ziff, Katherine K. creator text bibliography ohu Athens Ohio University Press c2012 2012 monographic eng

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xiv, 220 p. ill., map 27 cm. "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. Katherine Ziff ; foreword by Samuel T. Gladding. Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-213) and index. Hospitals, Psychiatric history Ohio Psychiatry history Ohio Professional - Patient Relations Ohio Mental Disorders therapy Ohio History- - 20th century Ohio Empathy Ohio RC445.O33 Z54 2012 362.2109771 9780821419731 2011041136 BEA 150602 20240501145931.0 331618