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Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals | Oliver W. Sacks, Christopher Payne
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Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals.
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The photographs in this book are both haunting and serene. As a psychiatric healthcare worker I found myself contemplating the drastic difference between the abandoned hospitals-what life must have been like there-and how behavioral/psychiatric units are today. In some aspects patient care has significantly improved; awareness is on the rise, stigma is dissipating...unfortunately, there is still much work to be done.

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