Library Resources
- NLM Collections Tour: Mental HealthTake a virtual tour of the National Library of Medicine's Mental Health Collections
Articles and Websites
- The American Mental Asylum: A Remnant of HistoryMark L. Ruffalo, Psychology Today, 7/13/2018
- America’s Long-Suffering Mental Health SystemZeb Larson, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspectives, The Ohio State University, 4/2018
- Beatings, Burns and Betrayal: The Willowbrook Scandal’s LegacyBenjamin Weiser, NY Times, 2/21/2020
- Deinstitutionalization: A Psychiatric "Titanic"This excerpt is drawn from Chapters 1, 3 and the Appendix of: Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997).
- What Life Was Like In Mental Hospitals In The Early 20th CenturyElizabeth Gagen, The Conversation, 11/25/2019
- Mental Health Treatment: Past & PresentCh. 13 of Introductory Psychology by by Kathryn Dumper, William Jenkins, Arlene Lacombe, Marilyn Lovett, and Marion Perimutter
Videos
- Back Wards to Back Streets1987 film documenting effects of deinstitutionalizatin.
- The Lynchburg Story: Eugenic Sterilization In AmericaThis haunting film tells the story of what happened at The Lynchburg Colony for the Epileptic and Feebleminded in, Virginia. There, between 1927 and 1972, over 8,000 children and young teenagers were forcibly sterilized.
- Mental: A History of the MadhouseFrom BBC 4: Documentary telling the story of the closure of Britain's mental asylums and what it says about society's changing attitudes to mental illness in the last 60 years.
- Unforgotten: Twenty-Five Years After WillowbrookA critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary that examines the impact of the horrors of Willowbrook on the survivors and their families, 25 years after Geraldo Rivera's historic television exposé.
- Mental Health America-100 YearsIn 2009, MHA celebrated a century of advocacy and action.