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 ldquo;gold standardrdquo; 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. Ziffrsquo;s fresh presentation of Americarsquo;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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Shirley Fernaacute;ndez RetanaBeautiful!
