Before Bedlam: Madhouses and the Birth of the Asylum

How the world first built places for the 'insane': Bethlem Bedlam, Georgian madhouses, the Quaker retreat and the birth of the asylum idea.

Playlist by @asylum_story

11 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The Birth of Bedlam: The World's Oldest Asylum — Reading the Past
2. Bedlam | The Shocking History Behind Bethlem Hospital, London's First Mental Asylum — thehistorysquad
3. The Horrific Story of Bethlem Insane Asylum | Short Plainly Difficult Documentary — Plainly Difficult
4. Bedlam, History's First Insane Asylum | Human Voiced, No Ads — ASMR Historian
5. What It Was Like to Be a Mental Patient In the 1900s — Weird History
6. Behind Closed Doors: A Look Inside Insane Asylums of the 19th Century — Ryan Poe
7. What It Took to Survive a Victorian London Asylum in 1888 — Worlds Before Us
8. History of Psychiatry - Ancient Origins — Arts and Humanities in Psychiatry
9. Mental Health — Andrew Scull: The Historical Journey of Mental Health — Axess Television
10. Keys to our Past - Moral Treatment — Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care
11. Institutionalized: The Story of State Hospitals — A. F. Ericsson Films