New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, formerly known as New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton and currently known as Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, is still in operation today and was an early asylum founded by Dorothea Dix herself.  Don't let that give you hope, though, because one Henry Cotton got control everything changed.  Join us as Kim describes the unique medical treatment that started there and eventually spread to other facilities all around the world only for its popularity to come crashing back down!

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https://www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/surgery-for-the-treatment-of-psychiatric-illness-the-need-to-test-untested-theories/

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https://www.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ajp.156.12.1982#:~:text=Over%20the%20years%2C%20new%20treatments,in%201947%20psychosurgery%20became%20available