Asylum for the Insane

GPTKB entity

Statements (50)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf historical psychiatric hospital
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs insane asylum
lunatic asylum
gptkbp:architecturalStyle gptkb:Gothic_Revival
gptkb:Kirkbride_Plan
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:deinstitutionalization
gptkb:moral_treatment_movement
gptkbp:country gptkb:Australia
gptkb:Canada
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States
various European countries
gptkbp:declinedAfter gptkb:deinstitutionalization_movement
advances in psychiatric medicine
public criticism of conditions
gptkbp:historicalPeriod 19th century
early 20th century
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Asylum for the Insane
gptkbp:legalStatus obsolete term
gptkbp:notableEvent closure of many asylums in late 20th century
deinstitutionalization in the 20th century
exposés of poor conditions
rise of moral treatment
gptkbp:notableExample gptkb:Bethlem_Royal_Hospital
gptkb:Danvers_State_Hospital
gptkb:Eastern_State_Hospital
gptkb:Trans-Allegheny_Lunatic_Asylum
gptkb:Willard_Asylum_for_the_Chronic_Insane
Kirkbride Plan hospitals
gptkbp:notableFigure gptkb:Clifford_Beers
gptkb:Dorothea_Dix
gptkb:Elizabeth_Packard
gptkb:Philippe_Pinel
gptkb:Thomas_Story_Kirkbride
gptkb:William_Tuke
gptkbp:purpose confinement of mentally ill individuals
treatment of mental illness
gptkbp:relatedConcept gptkb:hospital
gptkb:psychologist
gptkb:deinstitutionalization
psychiatry
mental illness
mental health care
institutionalization
mental institution
state hospital
gptkbp:replacedBy gptkb:psychologist
gptkbp:status mostly replaced by modern psychiatric hospitals
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:McLean_Hospital
gptkbp:bfsLayer 3