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One Harlem Valley Insane Asylum Toe Tag Coin
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Dark History of Asylum
Harlem Valley State Hospital operated from 1924 to 1994. The facility was originally slated to be a correctional facility, Wingdale Prison, but complaints by the local population caused a repurposing of the buildings into a mental asylum. With 80 buildings on 800 acres, in its prime, the hospital housed 5,000 disturbed patients.
In the 1930s, Harlem Valley joined other psychiatric hospitals who were experimenting with a new trend, electric shock therapy, to treat individuals with schizophrenia. Then in 1942, neuropsychiatrist, Walter Freeman, introduced a new mental health treatment known as the lobotomy which was practiced regularly on unwilling victims at the facility.
Many patients housed here were alone in the world, having either no family or none that cared to claim kinship to a mental patient. The stigma during the 20’s-50’s surrounding mental illness was disturbing, and people were often hidden away rather than given proper and humane treatment.
Needless and extreme suffering was often the result.
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