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these people may have never had an education such as us, hint the spelling errors. also they are under-develop, they are just like children many times. or maybe these words are errors in our eyes yet in theirs it has a completely different meaning. these people see the world in such a way we can never even imagine... so i believe spelling errors are the least of their concerns. they didn't ask for such a life like this so why do you wish so much pain and suffering towards them?

If you slow down the DVD you will notice this is not from Session 9 but real art therapy. Such as the art therapy the movie based that scene on!

You can also tell by looking at some of the aging in this photograph.

Just reading this put the song Sloop John B in my head. And that song is sad to me even with the upbeat.

Wondeful photo for the last shot in this gallery.

it seems to be a very sad dark picture, i would have hated to be the person waking up and seeing this every day, knowing it was completely out of my reach.

rich,

It used to be a common thing back in the 50s to 70s to take school children to institutions for field trips. The intent was educational, but as soon as people with disabilities began to be seen as "people," this practice died off. Back in the 1500-1700s in both England and the US people would pay admission to go to the "lunatic asylums" on weekends and get their entertainment staring at the "inmates."

http://www.cwu.edu/~warren/addenda.html
"Public admission to the wards at Bethlehem Hospital, London, was discontinued. For at least 200 years, visits to 'Bedlam' had been a common entertainment for Londoners, but the practice became more restricted after 1766."

http://ise.uvic.ca/Lib.../society/bedlam.html
"And why visit? Not necessarily to see relatives, or to offer charity. The sight of the mentally disturbed became a spectacle, an entertainment."

http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1315card.htm
"Considerable anxiety is sometimes expressed by persons who derive a morbid satisfaction from looking on scenes of human misery, as to the propriety, safety, &c., of their visiting the Asylum. This diseased state of the sentiments is most incident to those who have been badly educated..."

http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1124.htm
This is a fascinating article from 1852 written by the Superintendent of Butler Hospital in Rhode Island. You can see that the same issues we discuss today were relevant back then as well.

http://en.wikipedia.or...sychiatric_hospitals
This is a good overview on the history of psychiatric hospitals, types of hospitals and treatments, and, most interesting to me, a discussion about how mental illness and psychiatric hospitals are portrayed in the media.

Finally, if anyone is truly interested in the history of disabilities there is probably no better source for historical documents than the Disability Library Museum, available on the Internet. I believe to profit from it you need to read more than one or two of these original source articles to get a feel for the history of the field, but I have spent many, many hours over many months going through these documents and I find them fascinating and a great backdrop to the pix Motts has taken. Some of the facilities he has photographed are discussed in these papers, so you can actually read about these places from a time when they were still in use.

http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/
Disability History Museum
"Mission: The Disability History Museum's mission is to promote understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities by recovering, chronicling, and interpreting their stories. Our goal is to help foster a deeper understanding of disability and to dispel lingering myths, assumptions, and stereotypes by examining these cultural legacies."

nice picture, with the clouds in the backgroud, and looking up at the tower. black and white is great fot this picture.

Oh, no! Don't be goin' there! They have real live terrorist training going on there and you might get shot! Honest to God! These Homeland Security people seem to be the most paranoid folks out there, so they will truly shoot you if you go there! Ix! Nix! No!

Sadly that is the truth some places. Even regular hospitals. I went in for a heart murmor and they wanted to give that to me since my sister was concerned about having me stay overnight for a known problem that my regular doctor was fully aware of.

Needless to say I walked out against medical advice. Find out that this hospital, yes regular hospital, is known to give Haldol out to help the night shift. Especially on the cardiac ward!

At some facilities where the person who gave out the meds also had interaction with the "clients" it was much appreciated that the staff gave out meds from the window. It meant that the staff would use the rest of the time to spend with the patients one on one instead of using that time to drag the med cart around room to room to room

again you are to be applauded mr. motts a very stunning gallery as usual, thank you

yikes!! fantastic shot

absolutely beautiful!!!

awesome shot one of the best galleries yet ..

Thanks for the links.

I'm sure there will be a bunch of new stuff for those Urban Explorers like me that dig those weird "double-use" sites.

the fact that curtains are still intact after all these years of damp and cold boggles the mind , would love to know where they buy their curtains mine dont last that long