Word: notting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noise in the Sky. At St. Lawrence, soon after one of the wards was unlocked, one patient returned leading another, who was limping. The explanation: "We heard a noise in the sky. We had heard of airplanes, but could never see one from the closed ward. We got so excited...
A striking feature at St. Lawrence, which is now 100% open, and in varying degrees at all New York's other state hospitals (average: 66% open), is the transformation of the wards. Gone are the dreary wooden benches, where patients dressed in Mother Hubbards (when they were not undressing...
Near to the Norms. Across the U.S., almost a dozen states are experimenting with open doors, from those unlocked only an hour or two a day to those flung wide throughout the daylight hours. In the early '50s, Pennsylvania rejuvenated its Embreeville State Hospital near Philadelphia, opened its doors...
The open door on the second-floor psychiatric ward of this old (1908) building does not mean freedom to walk in and out at will-any more than a patient in the adjoining medical or surgical wards can do so. But nobody is restricted because of mental illness alone: he...
"While the open door is no cure-all," says Dr. Hunt, "it is the most important thing that has happened in treatment of the mentally ill in our lifetimes-not even excepting the ataractic drugs. With this, we can prove to the public as well as ourselves that incarcerated madness...