Psychiatry has over its dead

Psychiatry has over its dead

April 28, 2011.



In this article which angry me it is to see that Psychiatry could leave ash of these deaths to the abandonment. These people (psychiatrists) is it really no morales and when I think that thousands of people in France (for talk of a country that I know) it has to regularly to them it gives me goose flesh; You know, it makes me think of the last war, or despite the fact that a number of person spoke of house gas nobody wanted to believe them until the day and…

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USA: the "forgotten souls" of the Hospital of "flew over the cuckoo's nest".

PORTLAND (United States) - hospital turned film "Flew over the cuckoo's nest" contains not only memories of the filming of the film classic, but also the ashes of 3,500 patients died between 1914 and the 1970s, which have not been claimed.
In 2004, a group of politicians who visited the decrepit premises of the psychiatric hospital in Salem, the capital of Oregon (Northwest of the United States), has opened the door of an adjoining building by chance and discovered some 3,500 URNs of copper containing the ashes of former patients.
Some urns had lost their label, others had been mixed. Exhibit, renamed "Chamber of forgotten souls", had apparently not been visited for 30 years.
"Some ash dating of 1914″, explained to AFP Rebeka Gipson-King, spokesman for the hospital." Only the remains of four persons have not been identified. We handed in 120 so far. "Unclaimed remains will be placed in a memorial that we will build the field of the new hospital".

The list of patients whose ashes have been found is available online (http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/mentalhealth/osh/cremains.shtml).

The main title of glory of the hospital, a set of Gothic buildings, is to have used adaptation in 1975 by Milos Forman on the novel by Ken Kesey, "Flew over the cuckoo's nest", with Jack Nicholson. The film, the story of a man who is voluntarily confine to escape prison and discovers the actions of a sadistic nurse, won six Oscars.
The hospital, where some buildings were recently destroyed pending construction this year of brand new facilities, founded 128 years ago. He was mentally ill but also patients with epilepsy.
The brother and grandfather of Don Whetsell, 79 years old, there are dead both. "It was during the great depression, money was scarce and I think it is for this reason that they have come to the State hospital." "There was nothing to Astoria", the coastal city where lived the family at the time, says.
"My elder brother, Kenneth, had terrible crises.". I remember my father the walking for hours at night. It was of the epilepsy. "Today, could be the deal", he said to AFP.
The family eventually resolve to place the child of nine years in this institution, where he died two years later.
The grandfather of Don Whetsell, Nathan McComber, it is has been placed in 1939 and died in 1941. "They have said mad, but he had probably Alzheimer's disease", he said. "
Don Whetsell began inquiring in 2005 to know the whereabouts of their remains. Four years later, he had discovered their polls. He has since buried grandfather and prepares to do so next summer for the ashes of her brother.
The hospital began to decline in the 1970s. In 2008, 40% of facilities were unusable, rodent-infested. Painting is departed, accumulated droppings of pigeons, asbestos is désagrégeait.
Care were in the endorsement, with nearly 400 cases of abuse between patients each year. Section 40, a centre which hosted children and adolescents, was the subject of rumours of sexual abuse committed by personnel of coaching.
"We have a long way to improve care for people with mental health problems, but it remains to be done," recognizes Rebeka Gibson-King. "We take care also of the patients in the past."