An Insight Into an Insane Asylum - Camp, Joseph
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In 1881, Joseph Camp, an elderly and self-trained Methodist minister from Talladega County, Alabama, was brought by his family to Bryce Hospital, an insane asylum in Tuscaloosa, where he remained for over five months. This book is an account of his stay and provides a rare glimpse of 19th century mental health care from a patient's viewpoint.

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In 1881, Joseph Camp, an elderly and self-trained Methodist minister from Talladega County, Alabama, was brought by his family to Bryce Hospital, an insane asylum in Tuscaloosa, where he remained for over five months. This book is an account of his stay and provides a rare glimpse of 19th century mental health care from a patient's viewpoint.
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Joseph Camp was a self-educated evangelical Methodist minister from Munford in Talladega County whose family tricked him in order to commit him to Bryce Hospital for the Insane in Tuscaloosa. When he was released five months later, he wrote this expose of the treatment practices of the hospital.