Evolution of a Missouri asylum : Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006 / Richard L. Lael, Barbara Brazos, and Margot Ford McMillen.
"Traces the history of Missouri's first state mental institution, the Fulton State Hospital, founded in 1851. This institutional history examines a century and a half of changing attitudes toward mental illness, evolving treatments as medical and psychiatric science sought cures and the co...
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Table of Contents:
- From idea to reality, 1844-1850
- Overcoming obstacles : the first decade, 1850-1860
- Disaster and rebirth, 1861-1872
- Administration gridlock and recovery, 1869-1897
- "To the victors belong the spoils" : asylum patronage, 1872-1923
- Search for a cure : treatments in transition, 1905-1940
- Bursting at the seams : growing pains, 1890-1940
- Three early residents
- Dramatic changes in treatment, 1940-1949
- Missouri's mental health care comes of age, 1950-1959
- Enlightened leadership, 1960-1969
- New strategies, new challenges, 1970-1979
- The challenge of youth, 1950-1991
- Deinstitutionalization, 1980-1989
- New missions as the century turns, 1990-2000
- An uncertain future.