Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857-1997 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) Review

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Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857-1997 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) ReviewI first read this book when I was working at Austin State Hospital. Sarah Sitton does an exemplary job of explaining the politics behind the founding of the original "Texas State Lunatic Asylum" through the current incarnation of the institution as the "Austin State Hospital."
The book serves not only as a history of one institution, but as a chronicle of changing attitudes and beliefs around the issue of mental illness. She documents the forward-thinking attitude of the original founders as they envisioned a "home away from home" for people who were having difficulties facing life; as well as, the decline into a warehouse for people who didn't "fit in."
Sarah Sitton brings the stories of the patients alive with accounts of their histories, as well as those of the reformers who fought for the right to treatment during the sixties. Texas heroes stand out in the book; most notably, Mrs. M.E. Holdsworth Butts, who sent prison-style dishes (used in the asylum) to members of the Texas State Legislature to urge more humane treatment of "inmates."
To this day Texas and every state in the union (perhaps, every place in the world) continues to stigmatize people with severe symptoms of mental illness. This book is not only the chronicle of one asylum, it is the story of mental healthcare and how it is subject to the winds of political whim.
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