Bethlem Royal Hospital was one of the Western World’s first hospitals that we would now define as an ‘asylum’ for mental illness. The deeply inhumane conditions of this hospital shortened to the name ‘Bedlam’ were so infamous that bedlam entered… Continue Reading →
There is no question that mental health care has improved in the Western world since approaches like those at the Bedlam Asylum. The violent, degrading, and unjust treatments of the first asylums are unlike what we see to do -at… Continue Reading →
Madness on Many Levels is a series of posts about the Australian psychiatric systems within large public hospitals. This series draws from lived experience as a patient and work experience over several years across many psychiatric facilities. Taking a critical… Continue Reading →
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