Revealing the horrific past of psychiatric hospitals - The Irish Times - Mon, Sep 05, 2011

Revealing the horrific past of psychiatric hospitals - The Irish Times - Mon, Sep 05, 2011: It is revealing in this context to read a Department of Health official recording the attitude of one resident supervisor to the mentally ill in his hospital. According to this senior psychiatrist, “mental patients are neither happy nor unhappy, they are withdrawn and oblivious of their surroundings, leading little more than a vegetable existence”.?