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Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry Through Collections and Display

In the second half of the twentieth century, the widespread closure of psychiatric institutions changed the face of Western psychiatry. Community mental health programmes and acute hospital ward services replaced the huge psychiatric hospitals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The results of this transformation are still being debated today. One of the less controversial consequences of this change, however, was the emergence of psychiatric museums and collections.

Posted in: History on 06/28/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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