Haunting portraits from an English lunatic asylum, 1870s

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The Victorian Era may not have been the start of the institutionalization of patients with mental health problems, but it was certainly a period when the numbers of asylums and patients treated within them, exploded. Whether this rise was mainly due to an increase in psychotic illness or to a decrease in tolerance of the […]

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