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Manicured Lawns and the Mentally Ill: the Rise and Fall of Asylum Tourism.

‘Curiosity about the patients doesn’t erase stigma; it perpetuates stigma. Sneaking around asylums diminishes the lived experience of the patients who suffered in there. It’s not OK to lie in someone else’s coffin or wear someone else’s straitjacket’ (Yanni, 2010). The Historical Madhouse and its Treatments Meaning a ‘place of refuge’, the historical mental asylumContinue reading “Manicured Lawns and the Mentally Ill: the Rise and Fall of Asylum Tourism.”