Northampton State Hospital on local Public Television
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This is an excellent documentary. I became interested in 19th century “lunatic asylums” because my genealogy research has turned up several ancestors who were committed to them. Not only were those old treatments ineffective, but the many reasons people were sent to those places astounds me.
This is an excellent documentary. I became interested in 19th century “lunatic asylums” because my genealogy research has turned up several ancestors who were committed to them. Not only were those old treatments ineffective, but the many reasons people were sent to those places astounds me.