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Central State Hospital, formerly referred to as the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, was a psychiatric treatment hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana.The hospital was established in 1848 to treat patients from anywhere in the state, but by 1905, with the establishment of psychiatric hospitals in other parts of Indiana, Central State served only the counties in the middle of the state.
The Indiana Medical History Museum is an Indianapolis monument to the beginning of psychiatric medical research. It is located on the grounds of what was formerly Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane , later shortened to Central State Hospital. [ 2 ]
The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
The Kirkbride Plan was a system of mental asylum design advocated by American psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809–1883) in the mid-19th century. The asylums built in the Kirkbride design, often referred to as Kirkbride Buildings (or simply Kirkbrides), were constructed during the mid-to-late-19th century in the United States.
West Virginia— The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, WV. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was built in the 1800s, and during the month of October, it offers flashlight tours of the ...
Wyoming State Insane Asylum in Evanston, Wyoming. Asylum architecture in the United States, including the architecture of psychiatric hospitals, affected the changing methods of treating the mentally ill in the nineteenth century: the architecture was considered part of the cure. Doctors believed that ninety percent of insanity cases were ...
Although the first American asylum, the Eastern State Hospital, was founded in 1773, the popularization of institutions as treatments for mental disabilities rose in earnest in the mid-1800s along with the social reform brought by the Second Great Awakening. [13]
Logansport State Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Logansport, Indiana, United States. Administration Building in early 1900s. It was founded July 1, 1888, as the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane and is Indiana's oldest operating psychiatric hospital. [1] Its first superintendent was Dr. J.G. Rogers.