3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

do you reckon theres blood on em?

You're not ignorant - you're lucky. They aren't an everyday occurrence like they were in the past before psychotropic medications were available (with their own set of problems).

You take a small sharp metal blade and insert it a few inches into the eye socket right above the eyeball. You get into the frontal lobe area of the brain and you wiggle the little sharp device back and forth a number of times and scramble things around. You pull the little metal device back out (an ice pick can do the job) and voila! The person's executive functions have been shot all to hell. If you hit the correct part of the brain you wipe out the section that makes people impulsive and wild and instead turns them into walking zombies. If you miss, well, that's not a good thing. Of course, hitting the right part wasn't exactly a good thing either . . .

For a slightly more elegant description of the process (developed by Moniz but popularized by our friend Walter Freeman, about whom we were commenting several pages back) see:
http://www.stayfreemag...obotomy_sidebar.html
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/articles/moniz/index.html

thatsss soooo werd

I noticed the crosses on the knobs of the staircase railing. Very awespiring picture. I think someone had fun and a reavalation day as the did the graffittii. It's still a form of art after all...

Great photo. Perfect black and white.

I wonder how long those curtains have been hanging, and if any prisoners wept their misery into the curtain's dusty threads? One thing to hold onto in the cell, a touch that could be homeyish.

I wonder how many tears were shed...

Amazing shot...You can almost see or hear the bustling busyness of nurses and doctors and caretackers hustling about through those doors. I wonder if it was actually pleasant or not...You can't always believe the stories.....

Creepy....

I'm sorry for being an iggnorant teenager but what is lobotomies? I cannot remember exactly what it is, though I'm guessing it's not the most pleasant of things...

That type of muted light is chiaroscuro

I checked the Danvers website and as of yesterday 5/18, everything has been demolished except for the water tower and C ward. [BIG GROANING SIGH] I feel like someone in my family died. Of course, we still have these wonderful pictures, but I just feel so sad.

wow june 1978 it says alot

I LOVE THIS SHIT

imagine how many people have been in that thing.....lol

these are such beautiful pictures i would absolutely LOVE to visit one time!!

its amazing how grafiti can be so beautiful at times....

I now have this picture, my absolute favorite, as wallpaper on my home computer. I can never, ever forget this place!