657 Comments for Green Hill State Hospital

AS- As noted above, the cabinet contains plumbing fixtures, not a painting. Do you really think staff would take (or have) the time to paint pictures designed to make patients even more anxious? If so, they'd be certifiable themselves! If staff were angry/unhappy/nasty, they would more likely vent it through verbal or physical abuse, not through involved plots to subtly torture people with psychological games involving art! Whatever the case, these are plumbing fixtures, not a malicious artpiece!

what painting?!

The painting in the cabinet behind the tub is bizarre and unsettling. This is not a good visual for patients who are trying to bathe. It is certainly not a calming sight for the reportedly violent and disturbed women who were forced to reside there. Why not a field of flowers or a sunny lake scene while the patients are vulnerable, naked and being put into a tub. It certainly could induce anxiety in a person being forced to bathe in this scenario. It seems like a cruel joke played on the patients by the staff. This probably speaks volumes for the types of inhumane treatments those poor woman had to endure.

rockabilly colors....hell my dorm was
dirtier than this!

whoa! looks precolumbian or art deco...

one word here......fabulous!

can ya feel it Nancy? The loss the confussion the pain loneliness...the mistreatment....the good willed treatments....alll In a day when psychology was a new emerging experimental science......wonderful photo archiveing mr Motts! keep up the good work!

sad but true most will go the way the old Mountain Sanitarium in NJ went demolished.....if any of these places are in a local area to any of you check into getting them listed as historical markers...that will prevent them from slipping into the past ...these hospitals have a wonderufl history and most of it affected the locale

looks like an activity room.....note the fade of pastel colors on the cieling ....awesome shot! I can almost see images of dancing ppl for some reason...odd....but then again Im sensitive like that......still a great shot....

this was a simple bath tub note no shackle rigging

have you done other shots of Kirkbride buildings?

a lone chair in the light like its tired of bring in the dark......Session 9 ..hmmm....I particularly like shots of old equiptment and abandoned beds...gives you a feeling that every one left ina hurry.

or cubbie holes for clean linen for each room? or maybe the personal effects of the staff?

so that they would let the natural light in without having to risk the breaking of large panes of glass or having to compromise the look with the use of wire or bars on windows......keep in mind violent women patients......the opaqueness was not so much to keep them from seeing out but from others seeing in

Actually the pastel colors used in most hospitals were used for the calming effect it has on the psyche