Before the Diagnosis: Asylums and the Birth of Mental Hygiene

How the 1900s treated the 'insane' — pauper asylums, straitjackets and the reform spark that lit the mental hygiene movement. Clifford Beers tells his story and early cinema sells the asylum to America.

Playlist by @mental_hygiene_docs

7 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. What It Was Like to Be a Mental Patient In the 1900s — Weird History
2. Clifford Beers Revolutionizes Mental Healthcare | History Honors 250 — HISTORY
3. Who is Clifford Beers? — Holos Communities
4. From Asylums to Recovery — Mental Health America
5. The History of Mental Healthcare in the early 20th Century — Aware
6. Mental Health Myth Busters: History of Mental Health — NAMI
7. "THE NATION’S MENTAL HEALTH" 1951 USA PSYCHIATRY & MENTAL HOSPITAL CARE DOCUMENTARY FILM SM10315 — PeriscopeFilm