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Bellevue Hospital, New York City: male patients (criminal insane?) in bed in ward, prison bars in foreground guarded by policeman. Photograph.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the billiard room. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly, 1860.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the female workroom. Wood engraving probably by F. Vizetelly after F. Palmer, 1860.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the men's ward of the infirmary. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly, 1860.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: a female dormitory. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly after F. Palmer, 1860.

Friern Hospital, Friern Barnet: patients. Photographs, 1890-1910.

Salomon de Caus incarcerated in the mental asylum of Bicêtre. Lithograph by Lafosse after J.J. Lecurieux, 1845.

Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by A. Birrell, 1813, after T. Stothard, 1783, after C. Cibber, 1680.

Irre Typen? : Männlichkeit und Krankheitserfahrung von Psychiatriepatienten in der Bundesrepublik, 1948-1993 / Christoph Schwamm.

Artificial womb : a feminist arts zine. #19.

Patton State Hospital, San Bernardino, California: a psychiatric patient enjoys drinking a morning cup of coffee in the bathroom. Drawing by D.R. Wilder, ca. 1954.

Never learned to dance / Gregers Tycho.

The lives they left behind : suitcases from a state hospital attic / Darby Penney and Peter Stastny ; with photographs by Lisa Rinzler.

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Psychiatric hospital patients

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Images about Psychiatric hospital patients

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Irre Typen? : Männlichkeit und Krankheitserfahrung von Psychiatriepatienten in der Bundesrepublik, 1948-1993 / Christoph Schwamm.

Artificial womb : a feminist arts zine. #19.

Patton State Hospital, San Bernardino, California: a psychiatric patient enjoys drinking a morning cup of coffee in the bathroom. Drawing by D.R. Wilder, ca. 1954.

Never learned to dance / Gregers Tycho.

The lives they left behind : suitcases from a state hospital attic / Darby Penney and Peter Stastny ; with photographs by Lisa Rinzler.

Psychiatric hospital patients

Images from the collections

Images about Psychiatric hospital patients

Works from the collections

Irre Typen? : Männlichkeit und Krankheitserfahrung von Psychiatriepatienten in der Bundesrepublik, 1948-1993 / Christoph Schwamm.

Artificial womb : a feminist arts zine. #19.

Patton State Hospital, San Bernardino, California: a psychiatric patient enjoys drinking a morning cup of coffee in the bathroom. Drawing by D.R. Wilder, ca. 1954.

Never learned to dance / Gregers Tycho.

The lives they left behind : suitcases from a state hospital attic / Darby Penney and Peter Stastny ; with photographs by Lisa Rinzler.

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