City of the Sick - Part I

This is a classic video showing just how far modern psychiatry has come since the middle of last century before modern medicine and deinstitutionalization. It is done in the style I remember some of my old health class reel to reel films being made. I am "guesstimating" it to be from around the 1940's given the looks of the cars, trucks, and downtown Columbus, Ohio. The story of how it was obtained is as follows... as a psychiatry resident at Ohio State University I rotated at the new State Psych Hospital (on the same grounds as the old) called Twin Valley Behavioral Health. I came across a man who had worked at the facility for sometime and was considered to be the de facto historian of the place. When the old building was being razed he went around collecting various items and historical memorabilia. The Columbus Dispatch even did a story on him years ago. At any rate, he found this old reel to reel film in a trash can... destined to be thrown out. He pulled it out and then it took him some time to find a reel to reel projector to play it. Once he did he was able to project it onto a wall and then filmed it with a modern day video camera. He was gracious enough to dub me a copy and I have since digitized it. The early shots of downtown appear to be shot off of the LeVeque Tower looking west towards the Broad Street Bridge and South towards the now Federal Building. The old hospital was classic "Kirkbride" Hospital Style and at one time was considered to be the "largest building in the US under one roof" until the Pentagon was built and took the title away. I had to upload it into two parts due to the length restrictions of Youtube. It is a good view for anyone interested in mental health but especially mental health professionals, medical students, Psychiatry residents, and Psychiatrists. I hope everyone finds this as interesting as I do and feel free to leave comments.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Mental Health
• Mental Institution
• Kirkbride Hospital
• Psychiatry
• Old School
• Columbus Ohio

[mrbing70]

Not much has changed over the years.. Seems like they are run almost the same today..

[insulationking]

Very good. Amazing!

[andrewbyrdful]

what's the music called?

[AnnoyingTypoSyndrome]

Scary bastards !

[kat399]

Thanks Uploader!