mental illness 
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SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
10/31/19
A Cultural Historian Explores an Old Mental Hospital and Why They Scare Us
by Troy Rondinone
They are haunted, but not by ghosts.
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6/17/18
Should We Bring Back Asylums?
by Stacy Horn
If we did they’d probably fail and the for the same reason they failed in the past.
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10-6-16
Texans Yearning for Home in the Roaring Twenties
by Bruce Chadwick
"Roads to Home" is a gauzy and loving play about life in Texas, in America, in the 1920s.
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SOURCE: Department of Defense
1946
Let There Be Light, 1946
Documentary: Veterans' hospital showing ten week treatment program for men with psychological problems stemming from combat.
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