Mental Health Care in Perak

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Forms of Asylum

Jacobi :

1. Several distinct quadrangles
2. H form
3. Lineal Form
4. Star or radiating
5. Pavilions
6. Pavilions

Peter Cracknell:

1. Radial Plan
2. Corridor Plan
3. Pavilion Plan
4. Echelon Plan

(studymore.org.uk)

1949

Electric shock treatement
(Herbert Gehr)

I hope they don't do this anymore

Doctors and researchers

(http://images.google.com/hosted/life)

At Kirkbride

Kirkbride!

Östra Psychiatric Hospital

(www.luxo.com)

About emotional response

(www.schizophreniaforum.org)

About emotional response

more: http://www.schizophreniaforum.org/for/live/detail.asp?liveID=80

Schizophrenia Stats

from: http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=3012

“A graph which illustrates that schizophrenia is more common than many other serious conditions.”

Hypothetical course of a mental patient’s status over time

Chaper II: Social Status and Mental Illness, pg. 20 Community Life for the Mentally Ill: an Alternative to Institutional Care, by George W. Fairweather, David H. Sanders, David. L. Cressler & Hugo Maynard, 1969

'walk the line'

Mental Patient at la Salpetriere Going Through the Phase of Contortions

http://www.natureartworks.com

I'm a Cyborg but that's OK

more summer beds

Paimio Sanatorium, Finland

by Alvar Aalto
"light exposure has been shown to decrease an average stay at a mental asylum from 13 to 4 days"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGAenhGrR78

The Manitoba Sanatorium, Ninette (1850s)

Summer balcony (www.mhs.mb.ca)














Patients' picnic. Lovely
(www.mhs.mb.ca)


"capacity, out of necessity, quadrupled in thirteen years"

Duchenne de Boulogne

The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression (1862)

T.S. Eliot composed much of The Waste Land inside of a Swiss mental institution, where he was recovering from a nervous breakdown.

Ezra Pound was similarly committed to St. Elizabeth's after World War II.

George Orwell was admitted to a sanitarium years before he wrote either 1984 or Animal Farm.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was frequently plagued by demons that he tried to escape through drink and gambling.

Eugene O'Neill suffered from depression and was deathly afraid that he had inherited from his mother what his entire family had assumed was mental illness.

Both Martin Scorcese and Francis Ford Coppola made two of their greatest films when they were emotionally bankrupt, financially destitute and when friends were questioning their psychological stamina.

The idea of the artist as madman is so frequent as to be a cliche, but some stereotypes do exist for a reason: Vincent Van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Michaelangelo.

source: everything2.com

Antisocial behavior can be generally characterized as an overall lack of adherence to the social mores and standards that allow members of a society to coexist peaceably

The versatility of hypnosis is unparalleled. Hypnosis occurs under dramatically different social settings: the showroom, the clinic, and the police station.

Hypnosis is a mental state (according to "state theory") or imaginative role-enactment (according to "non-state theory")

source: http://drwanrushidi.blogspot.com/