About this episode

This episode concludes the history of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, exploring treatment methods, patient escapes, and the asylum's revival post-closure.

Send us Fan Mail IT'S MY 100th EPISODE!!! This week we wrap up the history of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum and find out which treatment was used over a two-week period in an attempt to discharge patients quickly from the hospital. Discover how nine patients from the criminally insane ward escaped. And learn about how the asylum came back to life after it closed its doors in 1994. My main source is The Haunted History of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum by Sherri Brake. All other sourc...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Sarah Gallup

Topics covered

• history
• mental health
• asylum treatment
• criminally insane
• patient discharge
• hospital history

Keywords

• Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
• mental health treatment
• patient escape
• hospital history
• asylum

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

Books & works: The Haunted History of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

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