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Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing Landscape
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Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing Landscape Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Katherine Ziff; Foreword by Samuel T. Gladding


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Asylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Built in southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied the nineteenth-century "gold standard" specifications of moral treatment. Stories of patients and their families, politicians, caregivers, and community illustrate how a village in the coalfields of the Hocking River valley responded to a national movement to provide compassionate care based on a curative landscape, exposure to the arts, outdoor exercise, useful occupation, and personal attention from a physician.

Katherine Ziff's compelling presentation of America's nineteenth-century asylum movement shows how the Athens Lunatic Asylum accommodated political, economic, community, family, and individual needs and left an architectural legacy that has been uniquely renovated and repurposed. Incorporating rare photos, letters, maps, and records, Asylum on the Hill is a fascinating glimpse into psychiatric history.

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  • Title Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing Landscape
  • Author Katherine Ziff; Foreword by Samuel T. Gladding
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 204
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ohio University Press, Athens, OH
  • Date 2012-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780821419731 / 0821419730
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.2 x 6.8 x 0.7 in (25.91 x 17.27 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Ohio
  • Library of Congress subjects Athens Lunatic Asylum (Athens, Ohio), Hospitals, Psychiatric - history - Ohio
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011041136
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.210

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  • Choice, 11/01/2012, Page 0

About the author

Katherine Ziff is a mental health clinician, an exhibiting artist, and an adjunct professor in the counseling program at Ohio University. She has published in places such as the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, the Journal for Specialists in Group Work, and History of Psychiatry. Ziff conducts workshops for counselors and educators, teaching the methods from her second book, ArtBreak.

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