An insight into an insane asylum /

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"In 1881, Joseph Camp, an elderly and self-trained Methodist minister from Talladega County in eastern Alabama, was brought by his family to BryceHospital, an insane asylum in Tuscaloosa, where he remained for over five months. Camp, misled by relatives concerning the purpose of the trip, was s...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Camp, Joseph, 1811-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
Series:Library of Alabama classics.
Subjects:
Camp, Joseph, > 1811- > Mental health.
Camp, Joseph, > b. 1811.
Camp, Joseph, > 1811-
Camp, Joseph, > b. 1811 > Mental health.
Bryce Hospital (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Alabama Insane Hospital (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Psychiatric hospital patients > Alabama > Tuscaloosa > Biography.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Patients.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention.
Patients > Alabama > Autobiography.
Mental Disorders > therapy > Alabama > Autobiography.
Commitment of Mentally Ill > Alabama > Autobiography.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > Alabama > Autobiography.
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Patients
Mental Disorders > therapy
Commitment of Mentally Ill
Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques > Alabama > Tuscaloosa > Biographies.
Hôpitaux psychiatriques.
Maladies mentales > Traitement.
Internement (Psychiatrie)
psychiatric hospitals.
patients.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
Psychiatric hospitals
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention
Mental illness > Treatment
Mental health
Psychiatric hospital patients
Alabama
Alabama > Tuscaloosa
Autobiography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / John S. Hughes
  • My Ancestors
  • Insane Hospital
  • Becoming Acquainted with the Inmates
  • Mr. Perkins
  • The Wardmasters and Mistresses
  • Mr. Perkins's Rebuke
  • Friarson and Jones
  • The First Man Ever in the Asylum
  • Nuckles's Church-Letter
  • My Son's Arrival
  • Writ of Habeas Corpus
  • Massingale and Steadmire
  • The Asylum
  • Mr. Ford
  • Settlement in Alabama
  • Coffee
  • The Discovery of Alabama by De Soto
  • First Settlers of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana
  • The Slave, His Adaptation to the Southern Climate and for Labor
  • Early Days in Georgia and Alabama
  • Stern Morality Demanded by Public Opinion
  • The Slave-Trade
  • Camp-Meetings
  • The Memories of Childhood
  • Eli Bynum
  • Biographical Note on Peter Bryce / Robert O. Mellown.

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