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Ziff, Katherine

 
9780821423417: Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing Landscape
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ISBN 10: 082142341X ISBN 13: 9780821423417
Editorial: Ohio University Press, 2018

Sinopsis

Asylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Built in southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied the nineteenth-century "gold standard" specifications of moral treatment. Stories of patients and their families, politicians, caregivers, and community illustrate how a village in the coalfields of the Hocking River valley responded to a national movement to provide compassionate care based on a curative landscape, exposure to the arts, outdoor exercise, useful occupation, and personal attention from a physician.
Katherine Ziff's compelling presentation of America's nineteenth-century asylum movement shows how the Athens Lunatic Asylum accommodated political, economic, community, family, and individual needs and left an architectural legacy that has been uniquely renovated and repurposed. Incorporating rare photos, letters, maps, and records, Asylum on the Hill is a fascinating glimpse into psychiatric history.

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Katherine Ziff is a mental health clinician, an exhibiting artist, and an adjunct professor in the counseling program at Ohio University. She has published in places such as the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, the Journal for Specialists in Group Work, and History of Psychiatry. Ziff conducts workshops for counselors and educators, teaching the methods from her second book, ArtBreak.

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Editorial
Ohio University Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
082142341X
ISBN 13 
9780821423417
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
242
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9780821419731: Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing Landscape

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ISBN 10:  0821419730 ISBN 13:  9780821419731
Editorial: Ohio University Press, 2012
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