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Book Review-Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals  


Author:  Fred Cohen.


Source: Volume 12, Number 03, September/October 2011 , pp.42-42(1)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

The gorgeous photography captures some 70 abandoned asylums in 30 states and was accomplished over a six-year period and Sacks\' essay asks us to see these now abandoned fortresses in a way that few of us do.

Keywords: Photographs by Christopher Payne, Essay by Oliver Sacks

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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