GEORGIA LUNATIC ASYLUM
a.k.a Central State Hospital
Milledgeville, Georgia

The following images present the darker side in
the history of treating Psychiatric patients. Although the Items project
inhumane treatment within the medical field
this Instituion agrees that all aspects must be equally and fairly recognized.
So what was the brighter side? An extremely larger number of
Asylum residents off the streets with amenities and no longer homeless.
"INSANITY CAN BE STRANGELY LIBERATING"
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Keys made secretly
by Asylum Inmates

Medical Tools used
for Lobotomy Recipients

Asylum equipment used
for Brain "Shock Therapy"

Information for this Photo
available below
The above image is of myself holding an "old style" Strait Jacket
that is secured by laces (missing on this one) rather than buckles and straps.
Note the bed behind me. If a patient was noted for wandering the corridors of the Asylum
then the Orderlies would place the same type bed upside down on top of
the patient's own bed and create a small holding cell while confining the patient.

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