The Great Closing: Deinstitutionalization and After

How the big houses emptied out: anti-psychiatry, Laing, the new drugs, the laws that closed the asylums — and whether we got it right.

Playlist by @asylum_story

11 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Mysteries of Mental Illness - Episode 3 - Rise and Fall of the Asylum (2021) | Full Documentary — PBS America
2. We Shut Down State Mental Hospitals. Some Want to Bring Them Back. — ReasonTV
3. Are Jails in the US Replacing Asylums? | Vice News — VICE News
4. “Bedlam”: Film Shows How Decades of Healthcare Underfunding Made Jails “De Facto Mental Asylums” — Democracy Now!
5. Deinstitutionalization and mental health — Cambridge University Press
6. History of Psychiatry - Asylums to Community Care — Arts and Humanities in Psychiatry
7. R. D. Laing and Asylum 40 Years Later | THE NEW SCHOOL — The New School
8. R. D. Laing interview | Psychiatrist | Mental Illness | Psychiatry | Part 1 — ThamesTv
9. On Life and Laing: A Walk with Bob Foss (film about R. D. Laing) — Daniel Mackler
10. What’s the deal with the Anti-Psychiatry Movement? — Neuro Transmissions
11. Mentality | Mental Health Documentary — Garret Morgan