319 Comments for Barlow State Hospital

Wow Mica, You have a fixation on hinges !

Those look like the type what have legs in order to stack like bunkbeds.
With only about 12" between each bunk, Miserable to be invalided.
I suppose makes for stowing dead or at least unconscious people easy.

Probably is three hinges.
What unlike your hinges, That door cant be simply lifted off.

Thnx for the reply! We love your work and would be eager to see all you care to post. Never doubt that!

mama told me they were my magic shoes

Thank you for the new gallery, Motts! I've been checking the site a couple times a week to see when we'd be treated to one, and I was glad to have my patience rewarded.

Temple Grandin! that's her name apparently she has autism.

Back in the day that Baumeister was doing this it was near the end of the horrible evil practice of not providing any kind of affection or positive human interaction to patients regarded as retarded or mentally ill or having cerebral palsy often regarded as not having a mind. The rocking is a stress reaction and self comforting. I think what's her name the gal who invented a hugging machine for herself, they did a movie on her, sort of proves my point. I read the first couple paragraphs and it sounds horrible what he was doing to them.

Oh My! Sorry for misunderstanding. But, either way, Not good. Not sanitary. You must of cringed and absolutely dreaded being last, and if you tried to refuse you most likely had a fate worse than that. :(

Yes there was the "master shocker" at Buffalo State Hospital, however I could not ascertain if it was used specifically for ECT; it seems most commonly used for animal behavior studies. Unfortunately the device seemed to have been used on institutionalized patients, as referenced in the article "Effects of Contingent Shock and Verbal Command on Body Rocking of Retardates" (Alfred Baumeister & Rex Forehand, 1972 http://www.neurodivers..._baumeister_1972.pdf ), which in itself is disturbing as well. Photo of that particular room is here: http://opacity.us/imag...1_master_shocker.htm

I only know of one other explorer who had come across an ECT unit (or rather a few in a storage room), which was the same model as the one pictured here. As they look like a makeup case when closed, I'll bet they've been overlooked more than once.

Thanks all! Nah probably more in the low 200s range; it's certainly thinning out as years go by and these kinds of places vanish.

As fun as a smoking elevator might be, I think Ixnay is correct :)

Freiheit i think their's another one in buffalo state.

John Galt the old ones had no limit on setting or duration. They used to turn it one and move the electrodes about without breaking contact with my head. They used a lower setting but I do recall the times when they used higher settings and my 5 year old body reacted in the same way Murphy did on OFoCN. The last one I recall is the one the lady burned my held by holding the electrodes firm in one spot and cranking it to the max. They guy she tricked into letting her do it and had someone call him out of the room came running because he could smell my hair and scalp burning.
She got in trouble by the abusers not the authorities as they had it down to a science not to leave any evidence of what they were doing to the kids and she jeopardized that. I forget how they covered it up it might have been one of the spans of time I was secluded and not let outside with the other kids until it healed.

Hey that's the same soap dispenser from KPPC. I work for a bathroom and kitchen remodeling company and i was so pleasantly surprised when i picked up a fairly recent Moen brochure and they still make this very model, in chrome these days. Plus Ive seen an older version in real life this past october 8-D