Anti-psychiatry
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Anti-psychiatry, sometimes spelled antipsychiatry, is a controversial movement based on the experience that psychiatric treatment can often be more damaging than helpful to patients. The term anti-psy
Vienna's Narrenturm—German for "fools' tower"—was one of the earliest buildings specifically designed as a "madhouse". It was built in 1784.
Internee being restrained in a bathtub
Internee in a restraint chair at the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1869
Graveyard attached to the Church of St. Thomas in West Yorkshire, England, where thousands of internees from Storthes Hall Hospital are buried in unmarked graves