This post is a little off point for EBD Blog, but it will probably be interesting to folks who work with or study children and youths who have Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. Over on a site called Luminous Lint, which is devoted to phtotography, there is a series of photos taken by Jean-Philippe Charbonnierin in the 1950s. The photos show adults in or on their way to French psychiatric hospitals.
This evening in the first meeting of a class on behavior management I was recalling the conditions at a state hospital from which we took four children to test the utility of a family-like group-living situation. This was in the early 1970s when hospitals still held 100s of children. A couple of times I had to go to the adult units and saw similar scenes.
Link to the series of photos. Note: One photo shows a woman without clothing. Flash of the electrons to Professor Strange for his entry that alerted me to these.
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Peter Strange Yumi