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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 movement to provide compassionate care based on a curative landscape, exposure to the arts, outdoor exercise, useful occupation, and personal attention from a physician.

Katherine Ziff's compelling 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. Incorporating rare photos, letters, maps, and records, Asylum on the Hill is a fascinating glimpse into psychiatric history.

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• Foreword(p. vii)
• Preface(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xiii)
• 1 The Moral Treatment Experiment: "A Magnificent Site Overlooking the Hocking Valley"(p. 1)
• 2 Patients: "Each Admission Represented a Poor, Helpless, Hopeless Sufferer"(p. 25)
• 3 Architecture: "Space, Light and Air to Each Patient"(p. 63)
• 4 Politics: "Partisan Interests and Personal Place-Seeking"(p. 105)
• 5 Landscape: "Of Beautiful and Varied Scenery"(p. 125)
• 6 Caregivers: "To Take Proper Care of the Insane Requires Talents of a High Order"(p. 144)
• Epilogue(p. 165)
• Notes(p. 193)
• Bibliography(p. 209)
• Index(p. 215)

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This well-written, accurately researched historical work tells the story of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Built in southeastern Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum was considered the "gold standard" of the moral treatment philosophy of the 19th century. Ziff, a psychiatric historian and mental health counselor, describes the institution's origins as well as the patients, families, caretakers, and treatment within the therapeutic community. This is a work that brings the reader inside the life and times of patient care in Ohio. Asylum on the Hill is highly readable, enlightening, and for those who currently work in the field of psychiatry, the story is familiar and somewhat poignant. In the early 20th century, moral treatment was dismissed in favor of "scientific" management. Nonetheless, many of the institution's ideals and approaches to care remain feasible. The Athens Lunatic Asylum remains today as a complex of buildings called "The Ridges." This fascinating book will be informative to a wide range of readers in psychiatry, as well as to the general reader. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals; general audiences. D. B. Hamilton emerita, Western Michigan University

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Katherine Ziff is a mental health clinician, an exhibiting artist, and an adjunct professor in the counseling program at Ohio University. She has published in places such as the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, the Journal for Specialists in Group Work, and History of Psychiatry. Ziff conducts workshops for counselors and educators, teaching the methods from her second book, ArtBreak.