I found this site over the summer after doing some research on the Worcester State Hospital. Being from Worcester, I have always wondered about it and was always blown away by the beauty of the building, this place is huge!.LIFE Magazine did some sort of article on it in 1949 and that's where most of this pictures come from... Also, if any of you are also into Psych, Sigmund Freud visited the hospital during his only trip to America.
Worcester State Hospital (1905 Postcard)
Worcester State Hospital (1905 Postcard)
Patient, surrounded by men in white, receiving electric shock treatment (1949 Herbert Gehr, LIFE Magazine)
During stress, patient is strapped in a suspended armchair and whirled rapidly, after which a normal patient would be dizzy but a psychotic will not (1949 Herbert Gehr, LIFE Magazine)
Woman sitting alone in room, in hospital that studies mental disorders (1949 Herbert Gehr, LIFE Magazine)
*All images found on http://www.opacity.us/site56_worcester_state_hospital.htm
interesting stuff, you might be interesting in an old documentary called "titicut follies"
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