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When women used to be depressed or were not “taking care of their men” properly their husbands could send them to the psych ward for attitude adjustments. This was part of conditioning them to always wear a smile. They believed that if a woman saw herself smiling that it would become natural practice and that she would be “cured”. This often went along with shock therapies.
this makes me feel really sick and scared
I would’ve been lobotomized…
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I don’t know the title of the work, but it was clearly done by Ben Newman.
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Kat West
Photographic series of the abandoned Kings Park and Pilgrim mental hospitals. 2004
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how can we expect them to behave if we act barbarically ourselves?
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asylum morgue & autopsy table
Source: JuliaWertz (flickr)
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“ward” by grzegorz kmin
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Decaying Room, Abandoned Mental Hospital, S. Korea
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Rainbows, Lindsay Blair Brown
