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373- The Kirkbride Plan
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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Oct 8, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Today, there are more than a hundred abandoned asylums in the United States that, to many people, probably seem scary and imposing, but not so long ago they weren't seen as scary at all. Many of them were built part of a treatment regimen developed by a singular Philadelphia doctor named Thomas Story Kirkbride. Kirkbride was obsessed with architecture and how it could be harnessed therapeutically to cure people suffering from mental illness.
The Kirkbride Plan
The Kirkbride Plan
Released:
Oct 8, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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