Mentally ill patients at Stimlje Mental Asylum, Kosovo archive photo from 2000 (via

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Patient (via asylumbythelake.com)

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Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum: The Retreat and Yard (1866).

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From Christopher Payne’s Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals.

Amazing…

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And abandoned asylum in Australia.

Mentally Ill Patients Return To Destroyed Hospital - LIFE

Male patients sit and lie on the ground at the Al Rashad psychiatric hospital May 29, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq.

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Residents at these huge institutions could also visit theatres and cafés, as well as beauty salons like this one at Trenton State Hospital in New Jersey.

(Image: Christopher Payne)

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