asylums in English

noun
1
the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.
she applied for asylum and was granted refugee status
2
an institution offering shelter and support to people who are mentally ill.
he'd been committed to an asylum

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1. Asylums synonyms, Asylums pronunciation, Asylums translation, English dictionary definition of Asylums

2. These 4 Creepy Asylums In Southern California Are Still Standing… And Still Disturbing

3. [1] [2] Asylums was a key text in the development of deinstitutionalization

4. Conversely, conditions in deaf institutions and asylums were often grim and unhygienic.

5. There's something about abandoned Asylums that excites a morbid curiosity in most people

6. Of inmates and asylums: Today's House Republicans make the John Birchers look quaint

7. As in the Victorian prisons and asylums, the retention of personal sanity required some deviant dodges.

8. Asylums: something (as a building) that offers cover from the weather or protection from danger

9. But where we differ from other asylums is in the social station of our patients.

10. FOUNDLINGS, Asylums, ALMSHOUSES AND ORPHANAGES: EARLY ROOTS OF CHILD PROTECTION Dona Schneider' Edward 1

11. For the most part, private Asylums offered the treatments that were popular at that time

12. Abandoned Asylums takes readers on an unrestricted visual journey inside America's abandoned state hospitals, Asylums, and psychiatric facilities, the institutions where countless stories and personal dramas played out behind locked doors and out of public sight

13. Documentary which tells the fascinating and poignant story of the closure of Britain's mental Asylums

14. 9 synonyms of Asylums from the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, plus 39 related words, definitions, and antonyms

15. Asylums became notorious for poor living conditions, lack of hygiene, overcrowding, and ill-treatment and abuse of patients

16. New construction and construction of extensions of day-care facilities for children, asylums and similar facilities

17. Pictures and history of 19th century insane Asylums built according to a plan conceived by Dr

18. 30 As in the Victorian prisons and asylums, the retention of personal sanity required some deviant dodges.

19. Asylums For centuries, the mentally ill have been treated with a combination of fear,disgust and shame

20. A favorite location of modern horror movies and television shows, insane Asylums have captured our imaginations for ages

21. Bedlam provides valuable context about how prisons have largely replaced asylums as facilities to care for people with mental illnesses

22. However, individuals with disabilities-- whether physical or cognitive-- were commonly sent to "lunatic" and "insane" Asylums

23. Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates is a 1961 book by sociologist Erving Goffman

24. This Review seeks to nuance the standard narrative of Asylums by considering the voices and views of those who were

25. The New Asylums - A report on the new reality for the mentally ill: Nearly 500,000 are serving time in U.S

26. Asylums, for Foucault, were largely tools of social control, an argument that was effectively applied to mental illness more generally

27. Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums.

28. Asylums The history of the treatment (or lack thereof) of the mentally ill in the United States is a checkered one

29. Between 1848 and 1890, dozens of grand mental Asylums were built around the United States under the Kirkbride Plan, designed by Thomas Story …

30. Few institutions in history evoke more horror than the turn of the 20th century “lunatic Asylums.” Infamous for involuntary committals and barbaric treatments, which often looked more like torture than medical therapies, state-run Asylums for the mentally ill were bastions of fear and distrust, even in their own era

31. It had apparently been hoped that the numbers of long-term patients suffering from dementia would diminish with the rundown of the asylums.

32. Many Asylums tried to be self-sufficient and much of the food consumed by the patients and staff was produced on the farm

33. But when the first large Asylums were built in the early 1800s, they were part of a new, more humane attitude towards mental healthcare

34. But perhaps that phrase also applies to another class of institutions meant to house those deemed unfit for society: mental asylums. And for centuries — right up until the present day, in some places — the quality of most mental Asylums, at least those in the European tradition, revealed little degree of civilization at all.

35. Because patients with mental illnesses were commonly abused or stigmatized, doctors resolved to open hospitals, or Asylums, where they could live and be treated without bias.

36. Yet Asylums feature prominently in modern perceptions of psychiatry's development, on a mental map drawn in sharp contrasts between humanity and barbarity, knowledge and ignorance, and good and bad practice

37. The position of Alienists, the leading published thinkers on lunacy, and the medical superintendents in charge of asylums is difficult to distinguish within the hierarchical structure of nineteenth-century psychiatry.

38. Asylums, a pioneering ethnography conducted in the 1950s, is a powerful indictment of total institutions and the abuses inmates suffer from conniving relatives, self- serving professionals, and poorly supervised custodial personnel.

39. The Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, on the outskirts of London, was one of the first of the new state Asylums, and it set many of the standards for mental healthcare in the Victorian age.

40. Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions" -- closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals -- where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave the premises

41. The abundance of Abandoned asylums and psychiatric hospitals in the New England area create the bulk of the locations here; these beautiful state funded structures are vast and complex, giving insight to both the humanity and mistreatment towards the mentally ill over the past two centuries

42. Asylums is an analysis of life in “total institutions” — closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals — where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave the premises

43. The abundance of Abandoned asylums and psychiatric hospitals in the New England area create the bulk of the locations here; these beautiful state funded structures are vast and complex, giving insight to both the humanity and mistreatment towards the mentally ill over the past two centuries