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	Detention destroys asylum seekers' mental health - mental-health - 19 December 2001 - New Scientist
		Many other countries do not detain asylum seekers but allow them to live in the community, after ensuring that they are not a health or security risk.
		Initially, asylum seekers are in a state of shock, but remain hopeful that their confinement will be short-lived.
		After repeated rejections of asylum applications, usually after six to 18 months, the depression often becomes more debilitating, and may be accompanied by impaired memory, thoughts of suicide, paranoid delusions, and psychotic behaviour.
	www.newscientist.com /channel/health/mental-health/dn1707 (731 words)

	IRR: Demands for better asylum seeker mental health care
		The research for the report, Unheard Voices- listening to the views of asylum seekers and refugees, was carried out on behalf of the network of eleven Mental Health Patient and Public Involvement Forums in London and is based on interviews with thirty-one asylum seekers and refugees in London.
		All those interviewed 'reported that factors such as housing and poverty and adverse social circumstances played a major role in their mental health problems.' Destitution is a very real problem faced by many asylum seekers and the authors found that 'economic deprivation can impact negatively on mental health'.
		That the role of refugees and asylum seekers should be recognised and supported in the development and implementation of mental healthcare;
	www.irr.org.uk /2006/june/ha000024.html (707 words)

	AsylumONLINE
		We believe the time is fully ripe for a paradigm shift across the field of mental distress and that the alternative knowledges and resources are now in place to mobilise for change.
		Many mental health care workers who take the time to listen intently and work collaboratively with people who go through these experiences come to realise that, far from being abnormal or crazy, these experiences make sense in the context of the person's sense of Self, their experiences, and their life.
		All affected families are horrified when the label ‘schizophrenia' is soon attended by another damning label, that of ‘severe and enduring mental health problem', yet despite this devastating prospect, they are urged NOT to give up hope as this is important to their relative's recovery.
	www.asylumonline.net (4310 words)

	Game Servers:Teamspeak/Ventrilo Servers:Web Host @ Asylum Game Servers
		There will be a whole no look to the Asylum with lot of new features and a new outlook for the company.
		Asylum Game Servers is proud to have so many loyal customers.
		Asylum Game Servers is pleased to be able to offer gamers 20% off NOD32 Antivirus Software.
	www.asylum-gameservers.com (1070 words)

	War-Hit Iraqis Turn to Mental Asylum
		Three years of violence, insecurity and unrest later, nearly all of them have returned to the Al-Rashad mental institute, along with hundreds of new patients struggling to deal with the trauma of post-invasion Iraq.
		Founded in 1950, Al-Rashad is the largest mental health facility of its type in the country and was originally established for paranoid schizophrenics who could no longer function in society.
		After the fall of the old regime, and as the US military looked on, the hospital was looted, four women were raped inside its walls and it lost all its patients.
	www.arabnews.com /?page=9§ion=0&article=80286&d=5&m=4&y=2006&pix=community.jpg&category=Features (785 words)

	Fire Destroys Mental Asylum, Killing 25 in South India
		At least 25 mental patients were charred to death and five others injured in a fire that broke out early on Monday at an asylum in Ramanathapuram, a coastal city about 2,600 km south of here, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
		There are reportedly over 1,000 mental patient in about 15 mental asylums, mostly private ones, around the coastal city in the state of Tamil Nadu.
		The previous government of the state had ordered a probe into the running of the asylums and also arranged for the transfer of psychiatric patients to the government hospitals for free treatment.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /english/200108/06/eng20010806_76620.html (338 words)

	Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau ~ Forests, trails and spooky spires: Former mental asylum draws attention ...
		But romantic is precisely the word for Trattoria Stella, an intimate Italian restaurant that opened this summer in the resort town of Traverse City, Mich. With vaulted ceilings, deep-set windows and ancient brick walls whose gold patina glows in the flickering candlelight, Stella's seems to be a place out of space and time.
		Nearby resident Sherry McNamara has walked the extensive trail system since she was a young girl, and she still likes to hike or bike the grounds at least once per week.
		Already, the buildings and grounds are being used for a wide variety of events and celebrations - there's an annual Harvest Festival at the site of the gigantic barns where the asylum's horses and cattle were once stabled, and a February snowshoe stroll where participants follow a candlelit trail through the forest at night.
	www.mytraversecity.com /article.cfm?articleID=296 (995 words)

	Mental Health, United States, 2000: Chapter 13
		Mental health services should be sensitive to gender and cultural issues and the needs of particular demographic groups, as well as to high-risk groups such as the physically injured and disabled, the severely mentally disabled, and survivors of extreme trauma, torture, and sexual abuse.
		Asylum seekers face legal uncertainty and lack access to the social services afforded to resettled refugees, factors that compound problems associated with their lack of psychological support.
		Mental health professionals are often asked to certify the likelihood that an applicant experienced the torture or persecution alleged in the application.
	www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov /publications/allpubs/SMA01-3537/chapter13.asp (9215 words)

	Mental Illness - MSN Encarta
		Mental hospitals or psychiatric wards in general hospitals are used to treat patients in acute phases of their illnesses and when the severity of their symptoms requires constant supervision.
		In supportive housing, mentally ill individuals can live independently in an environment that offers an array of mental health and social services.
		This shortage may partly account for the large number of mentally ill people who are homeless or in jail.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566888_8/Mental_Illness.html (1160 words)

	Intro: BMHC
		The mentally ill poor were generally left to their own devices, to wander about as social outcasts until such time as they posed a threat to other persons or property.
		Although more asylums were beginning to spring up even in the American Colonies, most of the inflicted were cared for by family, left to wander on their own or confined to gaols and poorhouses where the living conditions were wretched.
		The treatment of mental illness, which varied from asylum to asylum, consisted of duckings, beatings, chairs which twirled until the patient lost consciousness, bleedings, leechings and the administrations of purgatives and emetics.
	members.tripod.com /hillmans2002/introtxt.html (1923 words)

	DfES, Adult ESOL Core Curriculum - Asylum seekers, refugees and mental health (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Their status as a refugee or asylum seeker is a situation rather than an identity, and it is important not to make assumptions about their needs.
		Mental distress is common amongst asylum seekers and refugees but there has been very little research in this area and it is not known whether the incidence of mental health difficulties is higher among refugees and asylum seekers.
		Mental health difficulties are not an inevitable consequence of trauma, and for many individuals re-establishing a normal life and developing social networks can help relieve feelings of depression and anxiety.
	www.dfes.gov.uk /curriculum_esol/tree/speaking/speaktocommunicate/accessguidance/8 (706 words)

	Bertha Mason's Madness in a Contemporary Context
		This fascinating document -- a report from the Metropolitan Commissioners investigating the condition of mental institutions throughout England -- provides a detailed overview of various "mental asylums," with statistics regarding the number of "curable" versus "incurable" patients, and reports suggesting that the cases of mental illness reported seemed to be increasing.
		Thus, this suggests that attitudes toward mental illness in the Victorian era were already shifting, and the public at large began to recognize the humane necessity of lending attention to the matter of mental institution conditions.
		He allows Bertha, whose family has a history of mental illness, to be locked up like a prisoner in a cheerless, windowless room, wearing dirty and ragged clothing and subject to the abuse of Grace Poole, who binds her to a chair to subdue her.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/bronte/cbronte/iwama8.html (1693 words)

	Science NetLinks: Mental Health 2: Bedlam
		Mental Health 1: Human Behavior provides students with a sound introduction and historical overview of the important figures and discoveries that have greatly advanced the study of human behavior since the early 1900s.
		Mental Health 3: Mental Health Through Literature examines how mental illness has been portrayed in the arts while highlighting for students a more insightful way to further develop their ideas about human behavior.
		Good mental health generally is regarded as the ability to cope with the ordinary circumstances people encounter in their personal, professional, and social lives.
	www.sciencenetlinks.com /lessons.cfm?DocID=282 (1843 words)

	The Ridges - Athens Mental Health Center
		Giant asylums in the Kirkbride style were going up all over America at this time because of the number of Civil War veterans suffering from what we now call post-traumatic stress disorder.
		The asylum itself was built from bricks which were fired on-site from clay dug on-site.
		The late nineteenth century was a good time for the mentally ill in America; progressive policies, modeled after European methods, gave people confidence in the way their loved ones were treated in the public asylums.
	www.forgottenoh.com /Ridges/ridges.html (1835 words)

	Mind > News, policy and campaigns > Press archive > New Mind research reveals mental health needs of refugees ignored ...
		Refugees seeking asylum in the UK are protected by the 1951 Geneva Convention and are entitled to free NHS treatment and care for as long as their application is under consideration.
		However, an increasing body of evidence suggests that current mental health service provision is desperately inadequate for this vulnerable group, with many refugees seeking asylum in the UK denied access to the full range and standard of mental health services available to UK residents.
		This is compounded by an asylum system which itself creates anxiety and depression due to the uncertainty and length of the process and which fails to provide adequate mental health services for those in need.
	www.mind.org.uk /News+policy+and+campaigns/Press+archive/New+Mind+research+reveals+mental+health+needs+of+refugees+ignored+amid+public+confusion+over+asylum.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic&WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished%22%22 (668 words)

	Psychiatric hospital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In some countries the mental institution may be (or may be argued, at least by some, to be) used for the incarceration of political prisoners, as a form of oppression (see Psikhushka).
		These new treatments of mental illness – which was now seen as a "defect", and likely a hereditary one – were seen less as therapeutic for the individual patient than as preventative for the society as a whole.
		The attitudes in these cases – that the mentally ill were a scourge and needed to be eliminated, and that the line between 'patient' and 'prisoner' is incredibly blurry – have their precedents in the history of mental hospitals, though were taken to extremes by totalitarian regimes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychiatric_hospital (2697 words)

	Mental hospitals
		These new treatments of mental illness – which was now seen as a "defect", and likely a hereditary one – were seen less as therapeutic for the individual patient than as preventative for the society as a whole.
		Both of the attitudes in these cases – that the mentally ill were a scourge and needed to be eliminated, and that the line between 'patient' and 'prisoner' is incredibly blurry – have their precedents in the history of mental hospitals, though were taken to extremes by totalitarian regimes.
		Mental hospitals are often depicted as frightening places in fiction, where treatments are forced upon inmates by uncaring staff, or inmates themselves are either violently deranged or sinister.
	www.mrsci.com /Psychiatry/Mental_hospitals.php (3061 words)

	Services for Asylum-seekers & Refugees (Site not responding. Last check: )
		How well existing mental health services meet the mental health needs of all asylum seekers including unaccompanied children is largely unknown.
		Asylum seekers are liable to frequent changes in accommodation and even homelessness.
		Multidisciplinary teams dedicated to working with refugees and asylum seekers should be created in all areas that house asylum seekers and refugees.
	www.rcpsych.ac.uk /college/specialinterestgroups/transculturalpsychiatry/asylum-seekersrefugees.aspx (821 words)

	Article on Mental Illness
		These inflicted persons were passed on to state mental hospitals and asylums, where the public displayed much interest in their care and treatment.
		Doors opened in January of 1874 with the institution dawning the name “Athens Asylum for the Insane.” The asylum was an attractive, ornate structure built to please the public’s eye but also to withstand the harshest conditions from within.
		In the Athens Asylum the patient population jumped from 200 to nearly 1800, with an insignificant alteration in staffing.
	www.brown.edu /Courses/HI0135/Documents/mentalillnessart.htm (2019 words)

	The Death of the Mental Asylum
		Like many of America's oldest asylums, Northampton was built according to a model designed by the physician Thomas Story Kirkbride, MD. The essential feature of the "Kirkbride buildings," as they have come to be called, was a large, domed central administration building flanked on both sides by wings for patients.
		As the asylum population skyrocketed in the 20th century, the new residents were accommodated by adding more and more wings, with the long-term, sickest patients being relegated to the wards farthest away from the center, Geller says.
		But although care in asylums during this period was generally miserable, some institutions struggled to maintain decent standards.
	www.webmd.com /news/20001227/death-of-mental-asylum (1660 words)

	Green Left - Issues: Psychiatrists demand changes to Australia's refugee policy
		He cautioned that asylum seekers were particularly at risk of neglect and abuse in the current climate of vilification.
		It read: “This conference of mental health professionals is concerned with the determinants of social and emotional well-being.
		To restore the access of asylum-seekers to judicial review of administrative decisions, and to judicial processes where their interests can be fairly represented, given that erroneous, non-reviewable decisions provoke anger at injustice, and may have fatal consequences for the applicants.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2002/514/27255 (807 words)

	Mental Illness History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although the colonial era’s methods of handling the mentally ill and medical procedures could be considered barbaric by present- day standards, the vast majority of people were content because the lunatics were no longer visible in society.
		In the Athens Asylum the patient population jumped from 200 to nearly 1800, with an insignificant alteration in staffing.
		Reflecting the changes in the treatment of the mentally ill brought about by drug therapy, and state and federal public policies in the 1960s’ state institutions changed their procedures resembling the previous moral management revolution. There was an emphasis on protecting the human rights of the mental patients that had historically been overlooked.
	www.ohiou.edu /~ridges/history.html (2029 words)

	Government orders closure of illegal mental asylum in Madhepura
		Bihar government has ordered closure of a mental asylum in Madhepura which was allegedly being run by a quack for the past several years.
		The mental hospital at Murkahi village under Shankarpur police station was being run by a quack- Mahadev Prasad Yadav, who recently won the Mukhiya election.
		The mental asylum has about 30-40 occupants and patients' level of comfort depends on their degree of madness.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/Health/20060620/368837.html (281 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Comment \| Asylum mental
		Elegantly phrased, the speech was a sustained condemnation of the mean, defeatist approach taken by too many European governments in dealing with asylum seekers and immigrants.
		Watching Helmer and his colleagues on the right of the chamber, it became all too plain the way in which asylum and immigration, and European integration, are increasingly coming together to create one of the great fault-lines in contemporary politics.
		Blair recently succumbed to an economically illiterate tabloid campaign shamefully egged on by the Tories, telling MPs that he was looking at ways to restrict welfare benefits available to migrants from the new EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /columnist/story/0,9321,1145091,00.html (864 words)

	Follow up on Indian Mental Asylum Fire
		It was also a village with about 16 small asylums for the mentally ill. The town of 10,000 is a mix of concrete houses and woven coconut thatched huts.
		Although the fire cast a harsh light on the treatment of the mentally ill, it was not the first sign of trouble: At least two reports detailing the desperate conditions of mental patients have been forwarded to state and federal health authorities in India since 1998.
		Even though 'mental illness' is considered to be a disability, not even one state has opened up facilities or social welfare benefits for this group of disabled.
	www.namiscc.org /newsletters/August01/IndiaFire.htm (2226 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Bengal
		The infant, whose mother is in a mental asylum, has no one to take care of her and nowhere to go.
		We arrested her and produced her in the chief judicial magistrate’s court in Jangipur from where she was sent to the district mental asylum,” said a police officer at Sagardighi police station.
		But neither the mental asylum nor the child welfare committee is taking responsibility of the child.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060627/asp/bengal/story_6405946.asp (429 words)

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