Description
This number of photographs, history, and firsthand accounts gives readers a glimpse on the roots of mental health. These vignettes are born of the non-public stories of folks that worked at these facilities, folks that were institutionalized, and their families. The authors took the time to hear their stories and endeavored to bear in mind their pasts and recognize how these events continue to steer the mental health industry these days. Pictured right through are the physical relics of the placesthe now in large part abandoned asylumswhere these stories unfurled.