Serbian Psychiatric Hospital. Photo taken by Goerge Georgiou who worked in Kosovo and Serbia between 1999 and 2002
Female patients receiving Radium Therapy, early 20th century
An insane asylum patient restrained by warders, Yorkshire, 1869, Henry Clarke.
A patient undergoing lateral cerebral diathermia treatment in the early 1920's. Diathermia used a galvanized current to jolt psychosis sufferers. Doctors eventually deemed it unsafe and unreliable.
A chronic schizophrenic patient stands in a catatonic position. He maintained this uncomfortable position for hours.
Pilgrim State Hospital Brentwood NY, USA circa 1940
Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry. Man in restrains, B, violent ward. 1945
Cuenca, Spain, 1961 Insane asylum
Patients in steam cabinets, circa 1910
An X-ray image of needles driven into the flesh by a psychiatric patient.
Abandoned asylum, Limbiate, Italy
Hydrotherapy first used in the early 1900s, Immersion in a tub of water to make a patient relax when agitated or relieve some ailment, lasted a few hours to overnight. 1936
Sunland Asylum. Dr. Freeman, the quack who invented lobotomies. The procedure turned most problem patients into zombies.
Patient in restraint chair at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire circa 1869
