Asylum Books

"Traverse City State Hospital"
Images Of America
Chris Miller
The first asylum that I visited in what was the start of my obsession with asylums was Traverse City State Hospital (as it was last known Traverse City Regional Psychiatric Hospital). This great book written by a good friend of mine is filled with many unseen and well known photographs of the beautiful buildings on the campus. Also a great history follows the photographs contain within. Enjoy this book from one of my favorite series of books.
ISBN : 0-7385-3389-0


"Dixmont State Hospital"
Images of America
Mark Berton
This book includes many historic and recent images of this all but gone place of asylum. From the start of construction in 1859 Dixmont sat on a hill in central western Pennsylvania. Now gone Dixmonts grounds now are home to a retail giant. Great book for any asylum buff.
ISBN : 0-7385-4520-1

"Ghostly Ruins: America's Forgotten Architecture"
Harry Skrdla
A great book about abandoned architecture. Includes sections about Danvers State Hospital, Wayne County Training School in Michigan, and many other forgotten relics in the United States.
ISBN: 1-56898-615-7


"The Early Gatekeepers: A Saga of
Three American Institutions"

Wynelle Deese
ISBN : 1-4137-1346-7
"Abandoned Asylum of New England"
A photographic journey by
John Gray and Mark Gerrity
For more info or purchase information
Contact - danvers_state@yahoo.com
"Asylum : Pontiac's Grand Monument from the Gilded Age"
Author : Bruce J. Annett, Jr.
Comments : This book is excellent!!! It had lots of historical information and many many photographs.  I would recommend this book very strongly!!
ISBN : 0-9719141-0-9
Website : http://www.bbmck.com
"Angels in the Architecture"
A Photographic Elegy To An American Asylum
Author: Heidi Johnson
Hospital: Taverse City State Hospital, Michigan
http://www.heidijohnson.com

"Medicine and Magnificence"
British Hospital and Asylum Architecture
1660-1815
Author : Christine Stevenson
ISBN : 0-300-08536-2
"The Art Of Asylum-Keeping"
Thomas Story Kirkbride and The Origins of American Psychiatry
Author: Nancy Tomes
Hospital: Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, Pennsylvania
"Images of America: Around Central Islip"
Author: Sr. Anne Frances Pulling
ISBN : 0-7524-0492-X
"Cold Storage"
Author: Wendell Rawls, Jr.
Hospital: Farview State Hospital, Pennsylvania
"Quest for a Cure"
The Public Hospital in Williamsburg, 1773-1885
Shomer S. Zwelling
ISBN : 0-87935-110-1
"Disordered Minds"
The First Century of Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia 1766-1866
Author: Norman Dain
Hospital: Eastern State Hospital, Virginia
"Gracefully Insane"
The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
Author: Alex Beam
Hospital: Mclean Hospital, Massachusetts
"Mad in America"
Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Author: Robert Whitaker
"Snake Pit Attendant"
The Experiences of a Mental Hospital Attendant
Author: Jesse Walter Dees, Jr
Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857-1997"
Author: Sarah C Sitton
Hospital: Austin State Hospital, Texas
"The Age of Madness"
The History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization
Edited By : Thomas S. Szasz
ISBN : 0-87668-144-5
"Beauty is Therapy"
Memories of the Traverse City State Hospital
Earle E. Steelye
As told to Kristen Hains
ISBN : 0-9704778-0-5
"Changing Places"
Remaking Institutional Buildings
Edited By :
Lynda H. Schneekloth
Marcia F. Feuerstein
Barbara A. Compagna
ISBN : 1-877727-04-0
"The City on the Hill"
A History of the Harrisburg State Hospital
By : Ernest Morrison
ISBN : 0-9644246-0-6
"The Physician, the Planthropist, and the Politician"
A History of Public Mental Health Care in Pennsylvania
Ernest Morrison
ISBN : 0-89271-101-9
"Great and Desperate Cures"
The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness
Elliot S. Valenstein
ISBN : 0-465-02710-5
"Masters of Bedlam"
The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade
Andrew Scull
Charlotte MacKenzie
Nicholas Hervery
ISBN : 0-691-03411-7
"Museums of Madness"
The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century England
Andrew T. Scull
"A History of the Wayne County Infirmary, Psychiatric, and General Hospital Complex at Eloise, Michigan"
1832 - 1982
Alvin C. Clark
"Blue Jolt"
True Stories from the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Misc
Compiled by: Charles Steir
ISBN : 0-915220-30-X
"The Shame of the States"
A camera-documented survey of the shocking conditions in our state mental hospitals - and a brilliant blueprint for reform.
Albert Deutsch
"Madness in the Streets"
How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill
Rael Jean Isaac
Virginia C. Armat
ISBN : 0-02-915381-6
"15 Years in Hell"
Luther Benson
Published 1892

"Women of the Asylum"
Voices From Behind the Walls, 1840-1945
Jeffery L. Geller
Maxine Harris
Forward By Phyllis Chesler
ISBN : 0-385-47422-9

"Clifford W. Beers"
Advocate for the Insane
Norman Dain
ISBN : 0-8229-3419-1

"Cherokee Mental Health"
100 Years of Serving Iowan's
A Pictorial History
Produced by : The CMHI Centennial Committee
November 2001
"The Shoe Leather Treatment"
The inspiring story of Bill Thomas triumphant nine-year fight for survival in a state hospital for the criminally insane as told to
S.L. Stebel
ISBN : 0-87477-126-9
"The Day They Scrambled
My Brains at the Funny Factory"
Max Rabinowitz

"Centennial Papers"
Saint Elizabeths Hospital
1855-1955
Centennial Commission Saint Elizabeth Hospital
Washington, D.C.
"The Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital"
1853-1970
A History
Bliss Forbush, LL D
"Madness in America"
Cultural and Medical Perceptions
of Mental Illness Before 1914
Lynn Gamwell and Nancy Tomes
ISBN : 0-8014-3161-1


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